TO AMERICA IN SEARCH OF BIRDS 435 



I am in England, Sailing from England direct for New Orleans, 

 steam Boats reach the place of Mr Johnson in two days. 

 Duplicate. 



I, Wm. Garrett Johnson do authorize my friend J. J. Audu- 

 bon to make the above proposition and do by these present obli- 

 gate myself to comply with them punctually and particularly. 



WM. GARRETT JOHNSON. 

 [Addressed] 



MR ROB T HAVEKL Ju R 



Engraver 



79 Newman Street 

 Oxford Street 

 London 

 England 



"On January 1, 1830," said the naturalist, "we 

 started for New Orleans, taking with us the only three 

 servants yet belonging to us, namely, Cecilia, and her 

 two sons, Reuben and Lewis. We stayed a few days at 

 our friend Mr. Brand's, with whom we left our servants, 

 and on the seventh of January took passage on the 

 splendid steamer Philadelphia for Louisville, paying 

 sixty dollars fare." 13 After a long visit with their 

 sons, on the seventh of March they ascended the Ohio 

 to Cincinnati, and at Wheeling took the mail-coach to 

 Washington. At the national capital Audubon met 

 the President, Andrew Jackson, and was befriended by 

 Edward Everett, at that time a leader in the House of 

 Representatives. "Congress," said the naturalist, "was 

 then in session, and I exhibited my drawings to the 

 House of Representatives, and received their subscrip- 



13 



See Lucy B. Audubon, ed., Life of John James Audubon, the 

 Naturalist (Bibl. No. 73), p. 203. Since black slaves were the only- 

 domestics available in the South at that time, it is probable that the 

 "servants" referred to were employed by Mrs. Audubon at her "Beech- 

 grove" school. 



