418 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
by your letter that I hear of my work (2 d) being in London: 
I have not yet seen a copy myself nor did I know positively that 
it had been published. You must surely have received one 
from myself at all events, for I directed Messrs Gay & Lea to 
let you have one of the very first out. Let me know whether 
you have it & your opinion about it.—I think you are right in 
going to Russia, especially as in giving them the American 
Birds you will probably give us the Russians, some of which 
are hardly known. Try to get for me Pyrrhula longicauda, P. 
rosea & Scalopax—thalina, the latter especially. I shall not 
loose sight of the portrait, but it will be still more difficult to get 
the signature. I will however endeavor from some of my rela- 
tions. You were right in supposing me “dans les bras de la 
paix & le bonheur d’un heureux pére de famille” but greatly mis- 
taken to think I was taking “le plaisir des sciences”. Settling 
and other cursed worldly affairs have so much taken up my 
time, that I have not looked a specimen or a book since I am 
in Rome . . . my small library itself & my Cabinet have not 
even been arranged & I tremble to find all my birds destroyed 
when the happy day will come to look into them. In the mean 
time an addition has been made six weeks ago to my small fam- 
ily. I have another son who has received the names of Lucien 
Louis Joseph Napoleon & better than that who is the porthrait 
of health itself. I am sure you will divide my happiness & 
excuse my delay in answering you principally on that account. 
I am in debt with half the scientific world & this has been the 
first letter I scratched since I am in Rome! . . . I hope to be 
more regular & less in a hurry in future . . . though God 
knows! . . . I will not however close this letter without men- 
tionaing the pleasure I had the other day in getting you a 
new subscriber & that among the English themselves.! The 
Earl of Shrewsbury & his good Lady highly admired your work 
the other day at my house & were so pleased with it that they 
said they would write immediately to add their name to the list. 
The Earl of Shrewsbury is as you know the first Earl of Great 
Britain a catholic & what is more to you a man of great taste. 
His not having heard of your work shows that you have not 
