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Havell, Junior, it is new born and brought to successful 



completion eleven years later. 

 Summer. Affairs at a crisis ; resorts to painting and canvasses 



the larger cities. 

 December. Five parts, or twenty-five plates, of The Birds of 



America completed. 



1828 



March. Visits Cambridge and Oxford Universities; though 

 well received, is disappointed at the number of subscribers 

 secured, especially at Oxford. 



September 1. To Paris with William Swainson; remains eight 

 weeks, and obtains 13 subscribers ; his work is eulogized by 

 Cuvier before the Academy of Natural Sciences, and he re- 

 ceives the personal subscription, as well as private commis- 

 sions, from the Duke of Orleans, afterwards known as 

 Louis Philippe. 



1829 



April 1. Sails from Portsmouth on his first return to America 

 from England, for New York, where he lands on May 1. 



Summer. Drawing birds at Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey. 



September. To Mauch Chunk, and paints for six weeks at a 

 lumberman's cottage in the Great Pine Woods. 



October. Down the Ohio to Louisville, where he meets his two 

 sons, one of whom he had not seen for five years ; thence 

 to St. Francisville, Bayou Sara, where he joins his wife, 

 from whom he had been absent nearly three years. 



1830 



January 1. Starts with his wife for Europe, first visiting New 

 Orleans, Louisville, Cincinnati, Baltimore, and Washing- 

 ton, where he meets the President, Andrew Jackson, and is 

 befriended by Edward Everett, who becomes one of his first 

 American subscribers. 



April 1. Sails with Mrs. Audubon from New York for Liver- 

 pool. Settles in London ; takes his seat in the Royal Soci- 



