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Braddywine springs — his may N° has just appeared — ^he told 

 me it would be in time to strike out Vignolas name — in the next 

 N° My term of duty as Surgeon to the alms House commenced 

 at the 1st of August — the sik for the surgical wards have also 

 suffered, but not so much as the poor tenants of the cells, it 

 has nearly cleaned them out — some respectable, but weakly 

 families in the city have already suffered — My time is use- 

 fully, at least, if not profitably employed, night and day. 

 cholera, cholera, cholera ! ! ! ! — Tho' I may have no time to 

 write much — I always think of absent fr<^ — Remember to 

 Nuttall, and all yr. family, Most truly yrs 



R Haklan 



Audubon's visit to Boston in the summer of 1832 

 was a red-letter period in his career. So warmly was he 

 then welcomed by the leading public and professional 

 men of the city that he could never say enough in praise 

 of the Bostonians. Dr. George Parkman, Dr. George 

 C. Shattuck, and Col. Thomas H. Perkins,^ who was 

 already one of his subscribers, were among his most en- 

 thusiastic supporters. Of Parkman Audubon said : "He 

 it is, whose memory is most dear to me." It was doubt- 

 less Parkman, then a professor in the Medical School, 

 who introduced Audubon to the president of Harvard 

 University, Josiah Quincy, whose name was added to 

 his list. 



On August 14, shortly after reaching Boston, Audu- 

 bon wrote to his friend Harris : 



'In a letter written to Audubon by his engraver, January 20, 1831, 

 Havell said: "Since writing my last, I have a new subscriber from America, 

 the Honble. T. H. Perkins, Boston Athenaeum. I packed it in a tin case, 

 and a wooden one; for the whole I am paid thro, the banking house 

 of the Baring Brothers, & Co., Bishopsgate St." 



The copy of The Birds of America in possession of the Boston Society 

 of Natural History bears the following in autographic inscription on the 

 fly-leaf of the first volume: Cost $1125— 



T. H. Pekkins 

 1837. 



