Lot 338
![[AMERICAN NATURAL HISTORY/ORNITHOLOGY] AUDUBON REQUIRES MONEY, single page letter in ink signed John J. Audubon and dated August, 25th, 1833, from Halifax, Nova Scotia. An interesting letter in which Audubon writes that he has... safely landed here](https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/nealauction/24/270624/H0120-L12898675.jpg)
[AMERICAN NATURAL HISTORY/ORNITHOLOGY] AUDUBON REQUIRES MONEY, single page letter in ink signed John J. Audubon and dated August, 25th, 1833, from Halifax, Nova Scotia. An interesting letter in which Audubon writes that he has... safely landed here and more than that, we are all well and Happy as men can be who have run out of money ( nearly)... Friday morning next for Windsor; by steamer to St. John's New Brunswick and down the bay of Fundy to -- we hope to reach Boston in about 10 days from this date. Audubon again mentions a lack of cash and asks his correspondent if he might prevail on him to accept and pay a draft to fit-out a schooner he is to charter... I may take this liberty in preference to drawing on my Brother at Law of New York. Framed together with a wood engraving of the artist after the painting by Chappel, 27 in. x 12.5in. sight E3000/5000 Note: In the summer of 1833, having left his family in New York, Audubon travelled to Labrador and Nova Scotia with his son John. Both Harvard and Yale have Audubon manuscripts in their collections. The Morris Tyler Family collection at Yale includes a letter dated June 5, 1833 that concerns the charter of a vessel for the Labrador expedition.
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