158 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
shop, you can keep us constantly employed; our ideas upon 
this subject are in perfect accord, and it would be indeed a 
pleasure if we could start under the auspices and good advice 
of Mr. Bakewell here; objects well chosen, favorably bought, 
and shipped with care, are always sure of mecting a good sale. 
I venture to hope that the ship La Jeanne, Capt. Sammis, will 
have arrived in your port, and that the Indigoes shipped by 
Mr. Bakewell will reach there in time for the sale of this 
merchandise, of which I have some fears, in view of the sum 
they have cost him. 
We thank you for the prices current that you have sent 
us. In one of my last, directed by way of Bordeaux, I begged 
you to call on Mr. Fleury Emery for a box of seeds, from 
Martinique and from this country, for you and for my father. 
This was aboard the ship, the Virginia, Capt. Roberts, from 
this section. We hope shortly to send you some merchandise, 
and possibly Mr. Bakewell will profit by an opportunity that 
we shall have in a few days for your port. A little more than 
three weeks ago I was at Mill Grove, and I rented it for a 
year, being unable to do better for the present. Your son, now 
in Philadelphia, is trying to settle the accounts of my father 
with Mr. Dacotta [Dacosta], who does not easily forget the 
réle of chicaner. Present, I pray you, my respects and com- 
pliments to your good family and wife, and believe in me as 
your devoted and constant 
servant, 
J. J. AuDUBON. 
Have the kindness to deliver the enclosed to my good father. 
The following quaint and charming letter, which 
young Audubon enclosed with the preceding and un- 
der separate seal, but which his “good father” may not 
have received, will be transcribed in full, without the 
change of a letter or mark. Lieutenant Audubon, who 
was then in his sixty-third year, was living, as we have 
seen, at Couéron, the small river town nine miles west of 
