4 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



" It seemed a great ' find' to me, but the price she put upon 

 it ($100) seemed an immense amount of money, and I did not 

 quite see how the deal could be financed. I mentioned the 

 matter to a Scotch friend and ornithologist, Wm. P. Turnbull, 

 who at once said, ' I will furnish the money and we will divide 

 the contents,' which was accordingly done, very much on the 

 lines of the celebrated division between white man and Indian 

 of a gamebag consisting of a turkey and a turkey buzzard. 



' ' My share, however, was about as much as I could carry, 

 and when I toted it home and arranged the ' odds and ends ' 

 that fell to my lot, I found I had a complete set of the letter 

 press and plates, a good many duplicates and some original 

 matter that must have been hidden in the letter press. I be- 

 lieve the part that did not fall to my share enriched the collec- 

 tion of some institution in Scotland, but I was never furnished 

 with an inventory of what Mr. Turnbull considered as the cap- 

 italist's share. 



"I enclose you a few papers that may be of interest. 



''It is somewhat of a coincidence, that while my sympathies 

 and enthusiasm were all with Wilson, my great-grandfather 

 (Miers Fisher) was the legal adviser of the Audubon family, 

 and Audubon, the naturalist, was much at 'Ury', Miers Fisher's 

 residence near Fox Chase, now in the 23d Ward. The tra- 

 dition in the family is that the naturalist Audubon was not onl}' 

 a good shot witli a gun, but was capable of drawing a very 

 ' long bow ' . Very sincerely yours, 



"Wm. Redwood Weight. " 



The papers consisted of two original drawings, supposed to be 

 by Alex. Wilson, one being a sketch of Wilson's schoolhouse 

 at Kingsessing, and the other a portrait of Michael Heinego. 

 Also a manuscript account of Michael Heinego, of York Co., 

 evidently written at request of Alex. Wilson by an unknown 

 correspondent, after Wilson's visit to Heinego; and uncolored 

 plates 57 and 64. 



In response to an inquiry Mr. Ruthven Deane writes me as 

 follows concerning some of the contents of the trunk that consti- 

 tuted Mr. Turnbull' s share. " Certain of these Wilsoniana relics 



