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AUDUBON, John James. Autograph letter signed ("John J. Audubon"), to Richard Harlan, Edinburgh, 21 September 1835. 3 pages, 4to, with address panel and seal, slight tear affecting approximately four words.
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AUDUBON, John James. Autograph letter signed ("John J. Audubon"), to Richard Harlan, Edinburgh, 21 September 1835. 3 pages, 4to, with address panel and seal, slight tear affecting approximately four words.
AUDUBON ON HIS AMBITIONS FOR A WORK ABOUT MAMMALIA: "BACHMAN KNOWS A GOOD DEAL ABOUT QUADRUPEDS AND WOULD PROBABLY JOIN US..."
Audubon writes his physician and naturalist friend, Dr. Richard Harlan of Philadelphia (1796-1843), requesting that he send a "complete Series of The articles which have appeared for and against me, at Phila, Washington City, and Bucks County," in order that he might show them to John Wilfour, whose review of Vol. 3 (Ornithological Biography) was anticipated. "He likes your review and so does Jameson and McGillivray, all of whom send you their regard and good wishes in return for yours."
In need of Specimens for the fourth volume of The Birds of America, Audubon mentions to Harlan his ambitions for a work about Mammalia: "Yes, that will be the subject after the Bird, and I think That in my Next Journey I shall...make Drawings and prepare and that Two or Three years of Labour may enable us to present our Countrymen with something rather New!! Bachman knows a good deal about Quadrupeds and would probably join us, and if someone from The Northwest could be found able...we could present a Work that would astonish The Nation and perhaps Ord himself!--"
AUDUBON ON HIS AMBITIONS FOR A WORK ABOUT MAMMALIA: "BACHMAN KNOWS A GOOD DEAL ABOUT QUADRUPEDS AND WOULD PROBABLY JOIN US..."
Audubon writes his physician and naturalist friend, Dr. Richard Harlan of Philadelphia (1796-1843), requesting that he send a "complete Series of The articles which have appeared for and against me, at Phila, Washington City, and Bucks County," in order that he might show them to John Wilfour, whose review of Vol. 3 (Ornithological Biography) was anticipated. "He likes your review and so does Jameson and McGillivray, all of whom send you their regard and good wishes in return for yours."
In need of Specimens for the fourth volume of The Birds of America, Audubon mentions to Harlan his ambitions for a work about Mammalia: "Yes, that will be the subject after the Bird, and I think That in my Next Journey I shall...make Drawings and prepare and that Two or Three years of Labour may enable us to present our Countrymen with something rather New!! Bachman knows a good deal about Quadrupeds and would probably join us, and if someone from The Northwest could be found able...we could present a Work that would astonish The Nation and perhaps Ord himself!--"