242 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
and the partnership was dissolved on April 6, 1811, 
Rozier paying part of the price in cash and the re- 
mainder in notes. In referring to the incident in his 
journal of 1820, Audubon wrote: “I parted with Mr. 
Rozier, and walked to Henderson in four days—165 
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SIGNATURE TO THE RELEASE GIVEN BY AUDUBON TO FERDINAND ROZIER ON THE 
DISSOLUTION OF THEIR PARTNERSHIP AT STE. GENEVIEVE, APRIL 6, 1811. 
From the Tom J. Rozier MSS. 
miles”; but this does not agree with a later account, in 
which he spoke of having “purchased a beauty of a 
horse,” and, happy in the prospect of again seeing his 
family, set out for Dr. Rankin’s house in Kentucky. 
In the earlier record he also wrote that he once had a 
friend in trade, referring to Ferdinand Rozier, “with 
whom he did not agree, and so they parted forever’; 
but Audubon visited Ste. Genevieve in the autumn of 
1811 and in the winter of 1812, probably for the pur- 
pose of collecting his money and settling his affairs, 
while the following letters of this period show that 
