Contents. 



CHAPTER V. 



1827-1833. 



Convalesence and return to Charleston— A Homestead 

 Built— Death of his Twin Daughters— Nullification 

 —His aged Mother— Letters 80 



CHAPTER VI. 



1823-1835. 



The Synod and Theological Seminary — Early History 

 of the Lutheran Congregations at Ebenezer and 

 Savannah — Visited by the Pastor of St. John's — 

 Formation of the South Carolina Synod— Theolo- 

 gical Seminary at Tennessee — Seminary in South 

 Carolina — Rev. John G. Schwartz— Ernest Haze- 

 lius, D. D. — The Charleston Church prospers— 

 Letter from S. vS. Schmucker, D. D. — Degree of 

 Doctor of Divinity Conferred on the Pastor of St. 

 John's dS 



CHAPTER VII. 



1831-1832. 



Correspondence with Audubon— Natural History— A 

 visit from the Naturalist Audubon — His Letters 

 to Audubon 109 



CHAPTER VIII. 



1833. 



Address on Horticulture— Essav on the Migration of 

 Birds '.' 124 



CHAPTER IX. 

 Laijors IX Natural History. 



]<s;:;i: to Ls;^.5— Letters to Audubon and his Sons— Suc- 

 cessful Labors in Botany and Natural History- 

 Anecdote of Oemler the Enthusiastic Botanist— 

 The Visit of Audubon and his Family — Mr. 

 Edward Harris, of Morristown, N. J.— A"^ Night 

 with the Hunters at Liberty Hall 147 



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