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A UDUBON 



I have had eighteen subscribers in one week, which is more 

 than anywhere else. 



Liverpool, Monday, May I4. I breakfasted with my 

 good friend Bentley, and left in his care my box contain- 

 ing 250 drawings, to be forwarded by the " caravan," — the 

 name given to covered coaches. I cannot tell how ex- 

 tremely kind Mr. Sergeant has been to me during all my 

 stay. He exerted himself to procure subscribers as if the 

 work had been his own, and made my time at his house 

 as pleasant as I could desire. I was seated on top of the 

 coach at ten o'clock, and at three was put down safely 

 at Dale St. I went immediately to the Institution, where I 

 found Mr. Munro. I did not like to go to Green Bank 

 abruptly, therefore shall spend the night where I am, but 

 sent word to the Rathbones I was here. I have called on 

 Dr. Chorley and family, and Dr. Traill ; found all well and 

 as kind as ever. At six Mr. Wm. Rathbone came, and 

 gave me good tidings of the whole family; I wait im- 

 patiently for the morrow, to see friends all so dear. 



May 19, Saturday night. I leave this to-morrow morn- 

 ing for London, a little anxious to go there, as I have 

 oftentimes desired to be in sight of St. Paul's Church. 

 I have not been able to write because I felt great pleasure 

 in letting my good friends the Rathbones know what I 

 had done since I was here last; so the book has been in 

 the fair hands of my friend Hannah. " Lady " Rathbone 

 and Miss Hannah are not at Green Bank, but at Woodcroft, 

 and there we met. While I waited in the library how 

 different were my thoughts from those I felt on my first 

 entry into Liverpool. As I thought, I watched the well- 

 shaped Wagtails peaceably searching for food within a few 

 paces of me. The door opened, and I met my good, 

 kind friends, the same as ever, full of friendship, benev- 

 olence, and candor. I spent most of the morning with them, 

 and left my book, as I said, with them. Thy book, I 

 should have written, for it is solely for thee. I was driven 



