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congenial to him than to me. lie is now (August, 1828) 78, and sees to engrave 
as well as when he was twenty years of age.” 
Audubon seems to have been mistaken as to Bewick's age 
at this date, for we learn from a footnote on a previous page 
(237) that “ he died November 8, 1828, being then just 75 ; ” that 
is, in less than three months from the date of this interview. 
During Audubon’s visit to London, where twenty-four hours 
after leaving Manchester he reached the Angel Inn, Islington 
Road, he resided at 95, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury. 
Here he stayed doubtless to be near his excellent friends J. P. 
Children and J. E. Gray of the British Museum, and within 
reach of others like E. T. Bennett, Vigors, Swainson (who 
entertained him at his house at Tittenhanger Green), J. C. 
Loudon, the editor of the Magazine of Natural History, and 
David Don, then Librarian to the Linnean Society. With Dr. 
Brooks he would visit the Zoological Gardens, then lately 
established, and with Bentley to Cross’s Menagerie at Exeter. 
Change, and to call on Leadbeater “ the great stuffier of birds.” 
“Almost as soon as I reached my lodgings [he writes March 30, 1828] a 
gentleman, Mr. Loudon, called to ask me to write zoological papers for his 
journal, but I declined.” 
April b. — “ Mr. Loudon called and said he was anxious to have a review of 
my work in his magazine, and would write to Mr. W. Swainson, a naturalist and 
friend of Dr. Traill’s, to do so. [This was afterwards published in Loudon's 
Magazine.’] He again begged me to write an article for him, for which he 
would pay eight guineas ; but no, I will write no more for publication, except 
to accompany my own pictures.” 
August 25. — “ Mr. Vigors wrote asking me to write some papers for the 
Zoological Journal, but I have refused him as all others.” 
The fact was that Audubon was in London to attend to the 
publication of his own great work on the Birds of America, 
and had quite enough to do in preparing the plates, writing the 
letterpress, and paying almost daily visits to his engravers, the 
brothers Havell. 
He had taken the work out of the hands of Lizars of 
Edinburgh and placed it with Havell in London “ because the 
difficulty of finding colourists made it come too slowly, and also 
because it could be done better and cheaper in London ” (vol. 
i., p. 258). 
For a long time he was assisted by William Macgillivray, 
who had been recommended to him by James Wilson, and no 
better or more fortunate choice could have been made. Audubon 
worked incessantly, Macgillivray keeping abreast of him, and 
Mrs. Audubon re-wrote the entire manuscript to send to America 
and secure the copyright there. 
In April, 1828, his English journal contains the entry : — 
“ I have the honour to be a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, quite 
fresh from the mint ; for the news reached me when the election was not much 
more than over.” 
A few months later, namely, on November 4, 1828, after his 
return from Paris, he wrote : — “ I have presented a copy of my 
