162 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
disposed to do everything for your interests, and that I shall 
always seek to merit your approbation. Should you decide 
to make [us] a consignment for a retail shop, have the kind- 
ness to follow, point by point, the following bill: 
60 doz. morocco leather powder flasks—green or gray, 
copper mounted, like those that you sell at the 
shop for 25 sols [soldos]. 
60 doz. d. d. of leather, mahogany color, at the same 
price. 
100 boxes d. 
100 music boxes,!® in prices from 10 to 18 francs, good 
pieces and gay music. 
100 boxes of seal-wafers, containing 1 gross each, assorted 
in color [but] more of the red than any other. 
10 gross of small boxes of seal-wafers. 
3 boxes of pastels, good, well assorted, and chosen by 
the sons of M. Belloc; more would not return us 
anything. 
If you could procure us good books in English at Paris, 
M. Bakewell assures me [that we would realize] a great profit 
on them, and upon the other articles as given above, if well 
chosen. We hope to sell Mill Grove, and we will credit you 
with a great part of the profit in colonial merchandise. It is 
with impatience that I await some news of the indigo of Mr. 
B. Bakewell. Have the kindness, I pray you, to forward the 
enclosed letter to my father as soon as possible, and will you 
take from the ship Ocean, the carrier of this letter, a little 
box [sent] to your address for him, and will you send this to 
him also? Present my respects to your ladies; accept mine and 
those of the Bakewell family. Ferdinand is well. I salute you, 
and I am your devoted friend, 
AUDUBON. 
Herewith the bill of lading of the box. 
The captain did not wish to make any 
charge, and has been perfectly polite. 
109 “Serinettes,” the old time music boxes, or bird-organs, of Swiss origin, 
