448 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
May ™ they visited Paris, Audubon no doubt wishing 
to collect the money due from his agent there, as well 
as to introduce his wife to the unrivaled attractions of 
the great city. Upon returning to London in July he 
had the pleasure of again meeting his fidus Achates, 
Edward Harris,’* of Moorestown, New Jersey, and 
immediately began to put his affairs in order for a long 
period of absence. 
While Audubon was in Paris, the following letter *° 
was written by his staunch friend and supporter in Con- 
gress, Kdward Everett, who, as has been seen, fully ap- 
preciated the national character of his great undertak- 
ings. The effort of this able advocate to give The Birds 
of America free passage to their native land, however, 
do not appear to have been successful until two years 
later, as a letter to be quoted in due course clearly indi- 
cates. 
Edward Everett to Audubon 
Cuartestown, Mass., May 19th, 1831. 
My bear sir 
I duly received your favor of the 1st. of Nov. accompanied 
with some copies of the Prospectus, and a few days since your 
letter of the 5th. March reached me. I owe you an apology 
for being so tardy in my reply to the former letter. It reached 
me at Washington, while I was confined with a severe illness, 
* An indication of the time of this visit is given by the following 
inscription written in the copy of the first volume of the Ornithological 
Biography, which was presented to Cuvier at this time: 
To 
Baron G. Cuvier, 
with the highest respect of the 
author.— 
Paris— 17 th. May, 1831. 
*On Wednesday evening, July 27, 1831, Audubon sent the following 
note to Mr. Harris: “Come to meet me tomorrow, precisely at twelve 
o'clock, at our lodgings, 121 Great Portland street.” 
* For the perusal of this letter the reader is indebted, as in so many 
other instances, to Mr. Ruthven Deane. 
