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Present the kind regards of our family circle to my daugh 

 ter, M r Audubor.. i: r-iy Grandson 1 5 who I hope are 



I remain Gent n 



Yours trul 



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M" K:r. ier is of opinion that there ought to be a renuncia- 

 tion by Lucv of any claim of dower upon this estate to 

 make the title good this may be sent on when you are 

 corning this wav 



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[Addressed] Mzss 5 ATDUBOX i: ROZTEB, 



Merch 5 



Louisville 



Kentucky 

 [Endorsed] Rec-. May 5~. 1510 



Lucv Green BakeweDL Audubon's wife, was three 







years younger than her husband, having been born at 

 Burton-on-Trent. England, in 1788. Her family were 

 descended from John Bakewell of "Castle Donning- 

 ton," in Leicestershire; Robert Bakewell. the geologist, 

 who came to the naturalist's defense manv vears later, 



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and who lived until 1843. was a nephew of her grand- 

 father, Jistph Bakewell of Derby. Left an orphan at 

 an earlv age. Lucv's father. William Bakewell. was 







brought up by an uncle. Thomas Wbodhouse, a rich 

 bachelor of Crith. Derbvshire, who eventually left him 



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a fortune. 



When William Bakewell succeeded to his uncle's es- 

 tate and manor, he lived the life of a country gentleman. 

 devotir. _ .jnself mainly to shooting and to the study of 

 chemistry and natural philosophy, while he enjoyed the 

 friendship of such men as Joseph Priestley and Erasmus 

 Darwin. His advocacy of Priestley's republican and 



"Vietoi j&ffbn] Audubon, who was then pine months old. 



