396 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
else a replica, was in possession of the Audubon family 
in 1898.° 
On December 14, 1827, Audubon wrote that, acting 
upon the advice of Mr. Maury, the American consul 
at London, he had presented a copy of his Birds to 
John Quincy Adams, the President of the United 
States, and another, through Henry Clay, to the Ameri- 
can Congress; in order that the latter should be as 
perfect as possible, Havell was asked to do the color- 
ing himself, but these proposed gifts do not appear to 
have been executed.’° 
New Year’s, 1828, found the naturalist in Man- 
chester, where but a few days before he had received 
the fifth and last number of his plates for 1827 and 
expressed himself well pleased with it. While return- 
ing to London by coach, he consented to take a hand 
at cards to accommodate his fellow passengers, but 
declined to play for money; “I never play,” he con- 
fessed, “unless obliged to by circumstances; I feel no 
pleasure in the game, and long for other occupation.” 
“TI missed my snuff,” he added, and whenever his hands 
went into his pockets in search of the box, he “discov- 
ered the strength of habit thus acting without thought”; 
but he remembered a resolution he had formed to give 
up the habit and stuck to it for a time at least; doubt- 
less, like his later friend, John Bachman, he reformed 
more than once, for in a letter to Victor Audubon, of 
November 5, 1846, Bachman added this postscript: 
“To Audubon: The snuff—the snuff, it is here! I have 
just taken a pinch, and the ladies have blown you up— 
sky-high, for teaching me such a bad practice; I say, 
®See Maria R. Audubon, Audubon and his Journals (Bibl. No. 86), 
vol. i, p. 342, where the “Eagle and the Lamb” is reproduced. 
See Vol. I, p. 436. 
