AUDUBON IN LONDON 393 
sons. He hoped to supply their places at Glasgow, then 
a rich city of one hundred and fifty thousand people, 
but after a visit there of four days in November, 1827, 
he was obliged to return to Edinburgh with but one 
new name on his list. 
On October 22 he expressed the resolve for the com- 
ing year “‘to positively keep a cash account” with him- 
self and others, ‘‘a thing” he had “never yet done.” The 
wisdom of that decision was apparent upon settling his 
accounts for 1827 with both Lizars and Havell, as ap- 
pears from this note, written in his journal on January 
17, 1828: “It is difficult work for a man like me to see 
that he is neither cheating nor cheated. All is paid for 
1827, and I am well ahead in funds. Had I made such 
regular settlements all my life I should never have been 
as poor a man as I have been; but on the other hand I 
should never have published the “Birds of America.” 
Again, for February 7 we find this record: ‘“Havell 
brought me the sets he owed me for 1827, and I paid 
him in full. Hither through him or Mr. Lizars I have 
met with a loss of nearly £100, for I am charged with 
fifty numbers more than can be accounted for by my 
agents or myself. This seems strange always to me, 
that people cannot be honest, but I must bring myself 
to believe many are not, from my own experiences.” 
Shortly after reaching London, as we have seen, 
Audubon had made the acquaintance of Sir Thomas 
Lawrence, then at the head of the Royal Academy and 
favorite painter of the Court and fashionable society. 
The friendship of this influential artist at a critical mo- 
ment proved most fortunate, for Sir Thomas called 
repeatedly at his lodgings, and at each visit brought 
patrons who went away with some of his pictures but 
not without leaving a handsome toll of sovereigns in 
