CHAPTER X. 



1837. 

 BACHMAN AND AUDUBON. 



UNION BETWEEN THE FAMILIES OF BACHMAN AND AUDUBON 

 THE HOME LETTERS TO AUDUBON, AND TO HIS SON, JOHN 

 W. AUDUBON VISIT TO BALTIMORE LETTER TO MB. EDWARD 



HARRIS FAILING HEALTH. 



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WE find from the following letter, that the union 

 between the families of Bachman and Audu- 

 bon, was at hand. 



CHARLESTON, May 14th, 1837. 



My Dear Audubon : I write you in haste, and am 

 uncertain if this letter will reach you before you leave 

 Louisiana. You are aware that I have to visit the 

 North the latter end of this month, on business con- 

 nected with the Church ; this you know, must be 

 attended to before Ornithology, or even Matrimony. 

 I go in a day or two to Norfolk, and hope to be 

 once more in Charleston by the latter end of June, 

 which I conceive to be about the time when I may 

 look for your visit to us. 



We are all well. I am terribly hurried, and my 

 letter must be short. I have received the fullest in- 

 formation about the Flamingoes ; and the eggs 

 themselves, I hope to get before your return. I also 

 found the nest of the Carolina Titmouse, etc. * * 



You are aware from a former letter, that your 

 Quadruped skins were wrecked off the Florida Keys. 

 By good fortune they were recovered and sent back 



