BEWICK COKKESPONDENCE. lOl 



There can Ibe little doubt of its being the first of the Genus ever 

 known to have visited the British shores. I took the liberty of 

 giving publicity to your letter through the medium of the "New- 

 castle Courant, on Saturday the 21st Inst., and it is very likely 

 it will have attracted the notice of the curious, far and near, be- 

 fore this time. The description you have given to me, as well 

 as some other particulars sent to your Grandson at Wallington, 

 I shall note down to be ready for another edition of the Birds, 



whenever it may be wanted as I am well aware, whatever I 



may have to say will be anticipated in some of the Ornithological 

 publications, long before I can give your description of this Hara 

 Avis a place among the British Birds. — How I do grieve to think 

 that it is out of my power, from the distance, to make a di^awing 

 and a cut of this Bird ; I need not tell you Sir John, that a faith- 

 ful portrait of anything, either Beast or Bird, is better than the 

 most elaborate and correct description without it. — The two 

 figures of the Yultures in my late publication, were not drawn 

 from nature by me, I can not therefore say how far they may be 

 faithful or otherwise ; the drawings of them were furnished long 

 since and before I had decisively made up my mind to draw only 

 from nature, for I can only be satisfied in the consciousness of 

 having done my utmost in aiming at truth, and it would there- 

 fore be highly desirable to me to obtain the loan of the specimen, 

 if that were possible. — The Foreign Birds in the Supplement, 

 were mostly done from the preserved figures in the "Wycliffe 

 Museum, lately purchased by the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society of J^ewcastle. 



I can not close my letter without warmly thanking you for 

 the pleasure afforded me by yours, which brought back to my 

 mind the vivid remembrance of many favours of a similar kind, 

 through a long course of years, now passed for ever away. 

 I have the honour to be, 

 Sir John, 



Your most obliged and obcdt. 



o- T I rp 1 T> ^ TnoMAS Bewick. 



Sir Jolin Trevelytin, Bart. 



(Of Nettlecombe), 



■ Bath. 



