CHAPTER X. 



18 3 7. 



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 MR. EDWARD 

 HARRIS — FAILING HEALTH. 



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 



