TO EUROPE AND SUCCESS 351 
Edward Holden to George Ramsden. 
New Orieans, May 26th., 1826. 
Grorcr Ramspen, Ese. 
Dear Sir. 
The present will be handed to you by Mr. J. J. Audubon 
of this city, whom most respectfully I beg to introduce to 
you. 
The principal object of Mr. Audubon’s visit to England is 
to make arrangements for the publication of an extensive and 
very valuable collection of his drawings in Natural History, 
chiefly if not wholly of American Birds, and he takes them 
with him for that purpose. Can you be of any assistance to 
him by letters to Manchester and London? If you can I have 
no doubt that my introduction of him will insure your best at- 
tention and services.—Mr. Audubon is afraid of having to pay 
heavy duties upon his drawings. He will describe them to you, 
and if in getting them entered Low at the Custom House, or 
if in any other respect you can further his views, I shall consider 
your aid as an obligation conferred upon myself. Pray intro- 
duce him particularly to Mr. Booth, who I am sure will feel 
great interest in being acquainted with him, were it only on ac- 
count of the desire he has always expressed to be of service to 
the new Manchester Institution, to which Mr. Audubon’s draw- 
ings would be an invaluable acquisition. 
I am Dr. Sir Yours truly, 
Epwarp Ho.pen. 
Among the letters which Audubon carried on this 
occasion, but which apparently he did not deliver, was 
the following, addressed by a friend in New Orleans to 
General Lafayette: ” 
2 Addressed “GENERAL LAFAYETTE, 
Paris ou Lagrange.” 
Translated from the French original, kindly sent to me by Mr. 
Ruthven Deane. 
