158 John BacJiman. 



To Edward Harris, Esq., Morristown, N. J. 

 CiiARDESTON, December 12tb, 1837 



^[y Dear Sir : It is a long time since I have heard 

 from or of you, and I am induced to write to inquire 

 liow you are, and how this uncertain world, with all 

 its changes and chances, has used a^ou since we met. 



The Audubons I hear from frequently ; they 

 write once a week. When we shall see them again, 

 is somewhat uncertain. I think, however, in the 

 course of eigliteen months. 



The work will soon be completed, and I feel con- 

 fident that it will be, on the subject of which it 

 treats, the best in the world. When anotlier edition 

 of the Letter-press is published, I wish that we could 

 persuade Audubon to correct the mistakes that were 

 unavoidable in his previous volumes, and the l)ook 

 Avill for ages remain a monument to his industry 

 and establish his fame."^' 



I have heard that you intended to visit the South 

 again in the S})ring. If so, surely you will not pass 

 us by witfiout a call. I shall then be quite at leisure 

 to go with you into the country. The old range is 

 still there and ])lenty of deer. I had not, for a long- 

 time, taken a gun into my hand, till a few days ago. 



"'■Ill the notes to the Letter-press, Aiidul)on cheerfully cor- 

 rected the uuaroidahle errom. 



'^Ibidem. The birds represented in the o5th plate of my 

 large work (Audubon's Bird's of America), I have since 

 found to l)e the young of the Yellow Poll Warbler. My 

 friend, Dr. Baehman, and myself discovered the error soon 

 after tlie publication of my first volume on Ornithology. 



"/6. Plate 55. I most" willingly acknowledge the error 

 under which I labored for many" years, in believing that 

 this species, and the Sylvia pidmannn oi "Bonaparte" are 

 distinct from each other. To the sound judgment of my 

 friend, John Baehman I am indebted, for convincing me 

 that the figure given by the Prince of Caiiino is that of our 

 present bird at a different period of life, therefore M'itli 

 different plumage." 



