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opportunity, I shall send you the new birds and 

 drawings. Nuttall will not be attacked from the 

 South, I hope. It seems to me that he might greatly 

 improve his second volume by holding fre(|uent 

 conversations with you, and he might add, in an 

 appendix, such land birds as you have described, 

 and he has omitted. I have found a few new species 

 of plants that I should like to submit to him. Oh, 

 wliat an enjoyment it would be for me to escape, 

 just for one week, from the hydra-headed, " XuUiti- 

 cation," and sit by your side and talk of birds ! 



Your friend, J. I>. 



