TO EUROPE AND SUCCESS 371 
I have no wish to sell my Gun but wish to give it him as his 
ow[n] in Fee Simple, as soon as he deserves it from thy own 
Hands. May God bless him!—if all continues well with me 
Victor and him may rise to eminence and therefore try Johny’s 
Spunk, do beg or make him draw all kinds of Limbs of Trees 
or Flowers for me and whenever he kills a bird of any kind tell 
him to measure the Guts particularly and make a regular list 
of the names of the Birds, length and thickness of those Guts 
and their contents= 
I wrote a long letter to each Victor and N. Berthoud on 
the 27 February, but not a word from either of them as yet 
reached me. I was quite shocked to see thy last letter of the 
8th of January without the print of thy new Seals, I am quite 
frightened at thy watch not having reach! thee, yet I hope every 
new Letter will bring me better tidings. I now collecting Let- 
ters from all my Friends here and will have God knows enough 
of them. I only hope I may soon be in a regular way of making 
a comfortable living for ourselves all: 
All the papers and books I send thee mention my name. My 
work is look? upon as unrivalled in any Country, I will soon 
know how it will pay.—I can only add that I will write to thee 
from all the places I visit—Let Victor have a copy of this= 
Collect all kinds of Curiosities whatever—try to send or bring 
with thee but send first if Possible Live Birds of hardy kinds 
such as Blue Jays by THEmsetves. Red Birds D°. red wing4 
Starling D°, Partridges &° &{—present my humble respects to 
ME & M?S Johnsons an remembrances to good Friend bourgeat 
—try to send me an account of the growing of Cotton from 
A to Z, written by an able Planter—I wish thee to make regu- 
lar memorandums thyself respecting all about Habits & Lo- 
calities &° &—thou wilst scarce believe that this day there 
[are] in many places 16 feet of snow. the weather has been 
tremendous—yet with all this no Invitation is ever laid aside 
2 John Woodhouse Audubon at this time was in his fifteenth year, and 
this injunction regarding the internal anatomy of birds, to which ornitholo- 
gists had hitherto paid but little attention, was given three years before 
his father made the acquaintance of MacGillivray. (See Chapter XXX.) 
