Interview with Daniel Webster. 3 9 1 



Quincy Adams is delivering a eulogy on the late Pres- 

 ident Madison. The mayor of Boston did me the hon- 

 or to invite me to join in the procession, but I am no 

 politician, and declined. 



" I dined with Dr. B. C. Green, President of the Nat- 

 ural History Society, with President Quincy, Isaac P. 

 Davis, and Mr. Nuttall. In the evening Dr. Shattuck 

 finished the subscription list of the society, bypresenting 

 me to his lady, who subscribed for one-tenth, and the Dr. 

 then put down his son George's name for one-twentieth, 

 making in his own family one-fourth of the whole, or two 

 hundred and twenty dollars, for which he gave me his 

 cheque. Without the assistance of this generous man, it 

 is more than probable that the society never would have 

 had a copy of the ' Birds of America.' 



^'■September 29. Mr. Isaac P. Davis called to invite me 

 to spend the evening at his house, and to meet Daniel 

 Webster. I met him at the Historical Society, where I 

 saw the last epaulets worn by our glorious Washington, 

 many of his MS. letters, and the coat Benjamin Franklin 

 wore at the French and English courts. 



" Mr. Davis has some fine pictures, which I enjoyed 

 looking at, and after a while Daniel Webster came, and 

 we welcomed each other as friends indeed, and after the 

 usual compliments on such occasions we had much con- 

 versation respecting my publication. He told me he 

 thought it likely a copyright of our great work might be 

 secured to you and our children. We took tea, talked of 

 ornithology and ornithologists ; he promised to send me 

 some specimens of birds, and finished by subscribing to 

 my work. I feel proud, Lucy, to have that great man's 

 name on our list, and pray God to grant him a long life 

 and a happy one. Mr. Webster gave me the following 

 note : — 



" ' I take this mode of commending Mr. Audubon to 



