370 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
Audubon to his Wife 
EprnsurcH March 12th 1927, 
My Dearest Frienp 
I am now proud that I can announce thee the result of the 
last meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. I was 
unanimously elected a Foreign Member of that Institution on 
the 5%2 Instant and am at last an F. R. S. —Wilt thou not 
think it wonderful; to me it is like a dream, and quite as much 
so when I see the particular attentions paid me by all ranks of 
the best Society. On the 6t4 I received the official Letter from 
the Secretary with the seal of the Society and the arms of 
Scotland—this along with my other diplomas and Letters, I 
assure thee enable me to be respected and well received in any 
portion of the Civilized World. Sir Walter Scott has also 
been so kind as to give me a Letter that I may exhibit wherever 
I may go=I have Two Letters from him very kind—all this I 
think will afford thee great Pleasure. 
I am now preparing to leave Edinburgh and will do so in 
a few days, I am now anxious to visit London as soon as I 
possibly can, and yet want to spend a few days at New Castle, 
York, Liverpool, Dublin, then back again to England, go by 
Cambridge and Oxford.—If I meet the success that I expect 
in that Tour it is very probable that soon after my reaching 
London, I will write for thee to Come, and when I do so, my 
Lucy may come without the least Hesitation for I will then be 
ready to receive her! 
Since my last of the 224 of February, I have received thine 
of the 31t of December, 34 of January and 8t of D2 this last 
mostly John’s, I am particularly glad that thou hast left the 
Beech Woods, yet thou might as well have given me at once 
thy good reasons for doing so. I hope that at this Instant 
that I am writing, thou art snug and comfortably settled afresh. 
The Trees and Segments have not yet arrived, but I hope 
to hear soon that they have—I have not a word about the 
Seeds reaching yet. do my Love always say by what vessel any 
thing comes. as John as concluded to take Lessons of Music 
