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lovely daughters and a manly-looking youth, their brother. 

 The dinner was excellent, and served simply ; but as our future 

 bread and butter depend on my exertions, I excused myself as 

 soon as convenient, and went to Dr. Pierson, who accompanied 

 me to call on some gentlemen who would be likely to take an 

 interest in my work." 



Audubon returned on September 24th to Boston, and remained 

 there one week, visiting his friends and looking for subscribers 

 to his Birds. 



"September 27. The citizens are all excitement; guns are 

 firing, flags flying, and troops parading, and John Quincy 

 Adams is delivering a eulogy on the late President Madison. 

 The mayor of Boston did me the honour 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 Natural 

 History Society, with President Quincy, Isaac P. Davis, and 

 Mr. Nuttall. In the evening Dr. Shattuck finished the subscrip- 

 tion list of the society, by presenting 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 conversation 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 



