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from you if such a thing is at all likely to be advantageous to 

 all parties. We leave this on Saturday for Leeds and I will 

 be glad to hear from you then I have a confounded steel 

 pen that scratches abominably. Present Mrs Audubon's kind 

 regards to your good Lady & accept Yourself our united good 

 wishes, 



your friend 



JOHN J. AUDUBON. 

 Address to the care of 



THOS FOWLER Esq. 



Bookseller 



Aug 22nd 1830 Manchester. 



[Superscribed] WM SWAINSON Esq. 



Tittenhanger Green 



Nr 



St Albans, 

 Herts. 



In Swainson's clear and candid reply, 9 which fol- 

 lowed at once, all was figured "to a nicety"; he would 

 supply his share of the matter at the rate of three dollars 

 and seventy-eight cents per printed page, with an extra 

 charge for corrections; he would follow his own ideas, 

 but strive to avoid any conflict of opinion, and would 

 expect his name to stand on the title. 



William Swains on to Audubon 



[between August 24. and 28, 1830] 

 Thursday 



MY DEAR MR. AUDUBON. 



I received your letter yesterday, and hasten to reply to 

 it. By some mistake or other, of Havell's, he has not sent the 

 birds to which you allude, and I did not of course know that 

 you had left them with him, now to your two propositions. 



9 First published by Ruthven Deane (Bibl. No. 217), The Auk, vol. 

 xxii, p. 31 (1905). 



