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and not a farthing more!’ Representa- 
tions were made to him of the magnifi- 
cence and expense of the work, and how 
pleased his Baroness and wealthy chil- 
dren would be to have a copy; but the 
great financier was unrelenting. The 
copy of the work was actually sent 
back to Mr. Havell’s shop, and as I found 
that instituting legal proceedings against 
him would cost more than it would come 
to, I kept the work, and afterwards sold 
it to a man with less money but a nobler 
heart. What a distance there is between 
two such men as the Baron Rothschild 
of London, and the merchant of Savan- 
nah !”? 
Audubon remained in London during 
the summer of 1834, and in the fall re- 
moved to Edinburgh, where he hired a 
house and spent a year and a half at 
work on his ‘Ornithological Biogra- 
phy,”’ the second and third volumes of 
which were published during that time. 
In the summer of 1836, he returned 
