CHRONOLOGY XXXiil 
Havell, Junior, it is new born and brought to successful 
completion eleven years later. 
Summer.—Affairs at a crisis; resorts to painting and canvasses 
the larger cities. 
December.—F ive parts, or twenty-five plates, of The Birds of 
America completed. 
1828 
March.—Visits Cambridge and Oxford Universities; though 
well received, is disappointed at the number of subscribers 
secured, especially at Oxford. 
September 1.—To Paris with William Swainson; remains eight 
weeks, and obtains 13 subscribers ; his work is eulogized by 
Cuvier before the Academy of Natural Sciences, and he re- 
ceives the personal subscription, as well as private commis- 
sions, from the Duke of Orleans, afterwards known as 
Louis Philippe. 
1829 
April 1.—Sails from Portsmouth on his first return to America 
from England, for New York, where he lands on May 1. 
Summer.—Drawing birds at Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey. 
September.—To Mauch Chunk, and paints for six weeks at a 
lumberman’s cottage in the Great Pine Woods. 
October.—Down the Ohio to Louisville, where he meets his two 
sons, one of whom he had not seen for five years; thence 
to St. Francisville, Bayou Sara, where he joins his wife, 
from whom he had been absent nearly three years. 
1830 
January 1.—Starts with his wife for Europe, first visiting New 
Orleans, Louisville, Cincinnati, Baltimore, and Washing- 
ton, where he meets the President, Andrew Jackson, and is 
befriended by Edward Everett, who becomes one of his first 
American subscribers. 
April 1.—Sails with Mrs. Audubon from New York for Liver- 
pool. Settles in London; takes his seat in the Royal Soci- 
