SETTLEMENT IN THE WEST 197 
in your letter to Mess Robt. Kinder & C®. under date the 215t, 
$ 
of Nov". last. I cannot tell what error you allude to of 93 . 
I suppose it is the amount of commission returned $93.94 / 100 
which you will perceive is duly at your C’. in the a/c. I am 
sorry to say that the tobacco is still unsold & that there is no 
prospect of selling it so as to cover the balance of your a/c 
Mess's R. Kinder & C°. request me to say that they wish the 
yarn mentioned in their letter of the [word omitted] to be made 
of water rotted Hemp & that they will write you p™ next post 
with their account against you as requested by you— 
I remain Gent” 
with Your m°. obt. Servt, 
Tuo’, BakEwELu 
for the assignees of my 
Father’s estate— 
Give my love to M"S. A. my aunt a rec®, hers last night— 
S. & is much as usual—she remains very sick yet. 
TB 
[Superscribed] Mess®*, Aupuzon & Rozier 
Merchants 
Louisville 
Kentucky 
Audubon fraternized with the sporting men of his 
district, who gladly sent him every rare bird that fell to 
their guns. At Shippingport also, then an independent 
center below the falls or rapids, he found a sympathetic 
spirit in Doctor W. C. Galt, a local botanist, as well as 
in Nicholas Berthoud, who had become his wife’s 
brother-in-law, and who was a friend on whom he could 
always rely. The spirit of hospitality so manifest in 
all these new friends won the heart of Audubon and of 
his attractive wife, to whom the door of a neighbor’s 
house was sure to open whenever business or adventure 
