CHAPTER XIII. 

 LIGHTS AND SHADOWS. 



DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY CONFERRED ELECTED TO 

 VARIOUS SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY SOCIETIES IN EUROPK 

 AND AMERICA ST. JOHN'S CHURCH COLONIZES LETTERS TO 

 AUDUBON ON HIS RETURN FROM ROCKY MOUNTAINS QUAD- 

 RUPEDS OF NORTH AMERICA VISIT TO AUDUBON HIS DAUGH- 

 TER JULIA JOY AT THE BIRTH OF HIS FIRST GRANDSON 



FAMILY LETTERS. 



To AUDUBON : 



CHARLESTON, August, 1842. 



" MY DEAR FRIEND : I have just returned from a 

 visit to the country, where I have left Mrs. Bach- 

 man for the benefit of her health. I have a season 

 ticket on the railroad, and, on my weekly visits, I 

 do much of my writing on Natural History. The 

 moment the clock strikes four I am up, and soon at 

 work. From this hour until seven, I have no inter- 

 ruptions. I hope in this way to steal time to write 

 about Quadrupeds. When I get fairly under way, as 

 I am now, I am not very easily diverted from the 

 object before me, and nothing but ill health or do- 

 mestic affliction will keep me back." 



J. B. 



His love for Nature in all her forms made these 

 days of recreation fruitful to others, as well as health- 

 giving to himself. Wherever he went, his pupils 



