Chapter XXV: Audubon's Letterpress and Its Rivals (3)

[244] These passages, which were shown to me by his
granddaughter, Miss Maria R. Audubon, in 1914, but not for
publication, occur in his journals under the following dates;
June 4, 1826, at sea; March 15, 1827, at Edinburgh, after
describing a visit of Lady Selkirk and her daughter; again
on the 18th of March of the same or the following year; and
on October 8, 1828, when writing to his wife from Paris and
reflecting on the advisability of visiting his old home at
Nantes. While these extraordinary passages are not quoted,
out of deference to the wishes of his granddaughters, it
seems only just to Audubon, in view of the revelations that
have already been made, to add this brief reference to the
incidents in question.

[245] This statement was made to me in 1914 by Miss Maria R.
Audubon.

[246] See Note, Vol. I, p. 27.

[247] In the first three volumes only of the _Ornithological
Biography_ (Bibl. No. 2), being omitted from the last two on
account of the exigencies of space.

[248] _Ornithological Biography_, vol. iii, p. 270.

[249] While the object of this visit is not mentioned in the
"Episode," it is stated in the second biographical sketch;
the ambiguities connected with the sale of this farm, in which
others besides Audubon were then interested, are discussed in