•'J 10 LIFE OF AUDUBON. 



CHAPTER L. 



JouBNAL Resumed — En Eoutb to Ploeida — A Fkiendlt Letter — Calls 



ON GOVBRNOE CaSS, SeORETAET OP WaR — WASHINGTON IbVING 



wandbrines sonth — florida excursion abandoned — returns 

 North. 



September 1, 1833. Aftee Audubon's return from Labrador he 

 remained three weeks in New York, and then made all his pre- 

 parations for a journey to Florida. He forwarded to his son 

 Victor, in England, thirteen drawings of land birds, which he 

 had prepared to complete the second volume of the great work ; 

 and he left seventeen drawings of sea birds to be forwarded in 

 October, for the commencement of his third volume. As an 

 evidence of the value Audubon set on these drawings, we may- 

 note that he insured both parcels for two thousand dollars 

 each. 



September 25. Mr, and Mrs. Audubon left New York for 

 Philadelphia on their way to Florida, leaving their son John to 

 sail from New York by water, " with all our articles of war," for 

 Charleston, where they proposed to meet. The journal says : " The 

 weather was delightful, and we reached Philadelphia at three 

 o'clock, and took lodgings with Mrs. Newlin, No. 112 Walnut 

 Street. Here I called on some of my former friends and was 

 kindly received. I visited several public places in the city, but 

 no one stopped me to subscribe for my book." 



The following letter from Dr. McKenney of Philadelphia is 

 inserted here as a capital specimen of a racy letter, and as 



