Impressions of the metropolis—A trunk full of letters—Friendship of Children—Sir Thomas Lawrence—Lizars stops work—A family of artists—Robert Havell, Junior—_The Birds of America_ fly to London—The Zoölogical Gallery—Crisis in the naturalist's affairs—Royal patronage—Interview with Gallatin—Interesting the Queen—Desertion of patrons—Painting to independence—Personal habits and tastes—Enters the Linnæan Society—The white-headed Eagle—Visit to the great universities—Declines to write for magazines—Audubon-Swainson correspondence—"Highfield Hall" near Tyttenhanger—In Paris with Swainson—Glimpses of Cuvier—His report on _The Birds of America_—Patronage of the French Government and the Duke of Orleans—Bonaparte the naturalist 377 CHAPTER XXIV FIRST VISIT TO AMERICA IN SEARCH OF NEW BIRDS Settles for a time in Camden—Paints in a fisherman's cottage by the sea—With the lumbermen in the Great Pine Woods—Work done—Visits his sons—Joins his wife at St. Francisville—Record of journey south—Life at "Beechgrove"—Mrs. Audubon retires from teaching—Their plans to return to England—Meeting with President Jackson and Edward Everett 420 CHAPTER XXV AUDUBON'S LETTERPRESS AND ITS RIVALS Settlement in London—Starts on canvassing tour with his wife—Change of plans—In Edinburgh—Discovery of MacGillivray—His hand in the _Ornithological Biography_—Rival editions of Wilson and Bonaparte—Brown's extraordinary _Atlas_—Reception of the _Biography_—Joseph Bartholomew Kidd and the Ornithological Gallery—In London again 437 ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME I Audubon. After a photograph of a cast of the intaglio cut by John C. King in 1844. Embossed medallion Cover Audubon. After the engraving by C. Turner, A.R.A., of the miniature on ivory painted by Frederick Cruikshank about 1831; "London. Published Jan. 12, 1835, for the Proprietor [supposed to have been the engraver, but may have been Audubon or Havell], by Robert Havell, Printseller, 77, Oxford Street." Photogravure Frontispiece PAGE Statue of Audubon by Edward Virginius Valentine in Audubon Park, New Orleans Facing 14 The Audubon Monument in Trinity Cemetery, New York, on Children's Day, June, 1915 Facing 14 Les Cayes, Haiti: the wharf and postoffice Facing 40 Les Cayes, Haiti: the market and Church of Sacré Cœur Facing 40 First page of the bill rendered by Dr. Sanson, of Les Cayes, Santo Domingo, to Jean Audubon for medical services from December 29, 1783, to October 19, 1785 Facing 54