TO AMERICA IN SEARCH OF BIRDS 435 
IT am in England, Sailing from England direct for New Orleans, 
steam Boats reach the place of Mr Johnson in two days. 
Duplicate. 
I, Wm. Garrett Johnson do authorize my friend J. J. Audu- 
bon to make the above proposition and do by these present obli- 
gate myself to comply with them punctually and particularly. 
Wo. Garrett JoHNsON. 
[ Addressed ] 
Mr Rost Haveuy Ju® 
Engraver 
79 Newman Street 
Oxford Street 
London 
England 
“On January 1, 1830,” said the naturalist, “we 
started for New Orleans, taking with us the only three 
servants yet belonging to us, namely, Cecilia, and her 
two sons, Reuben and Lewis. We stayed a few days at 
our friend Mr. Braud’s, with whom we left our servants, 
and on the seventh of January took passage on the 
splendid steamer Philadelphia for Louisville, paying 
sixty dollars fare.”** After a long visit with their 
sons, on the seventh of March they ascended the Ohio 
to Cincinnati, and at Wheeling took the mail-coach to 
Washington. At the national capital Audubon met 
the President, Andrew Jackson, and was befriended by 
Edward Everett, at that time a leader in the House of 
Representatives. “Congress,” said the naturalist, “was 
then in session, and I exhibited my drawings to the 
House of Representatives, and received their subscrip- 
%See Lucy B. Audubon, ed., Life of John James Audubon, the 
Naturalist (Bibl. No. 73), p. 203. Since black slaves were the only 
domestics available in the South at that time, it is probable that the 
“servants” referred to were employed by Mrs. Audubon at her “Beech- 
grove” school, 
