[8] In this year Charles Lanman, writer, and at a later time librarian of the Library of Congress, wrote to Victor Audubon as follows: "Are not you and your family willing _now_ to let me write a book about your illustrious father? I feel confident that I could get up something very interesting and which would not only help the big work, but make money. I could have it brought out in handsome style, and should like to have well engraved a portrait and some half dozen views in Kentucky, Louisiana, and on the Hudson. Write me what you think about it." Lanman's letter is dated "Georgetown, D. C., Oct. 8, 1856"; on November 1 Victor Audubon replied, declining the proposal. [9] Messrs. C. S. Francis & Company, of 554 Broadway, New York. [10] The publishers in this instance do not appear to have been better informed, for the text of the _Quadrupeds_, from which they quote, was written by John Bachman, and the first volume of it was issued in London in 1847; see Bibliography, No. 6. [11] Rev. Dr. Adams was rector of this parish for twenty-five years, from 1863 to his death in February, 1888; he was the author of three volumes on religious subjects and various smaller tracts; from 1855 to 1863 he had charge of a church in Baltimore, Maryland, and while there published an anonymous pamphlet entitled "Slavery by a Marylander; Its Institution and Origin; Its Status Under the Law and Under the Gospel" (8 pp. 8vo. Baltimore, 1860). [12] Buchanan said that the manuscript submitted to him was inordinately long and needed careful revision; he added that "while he could not fail to express his admiration for the affectionate spirit and intelligent sympathy with which the friendly editor discharged his task, he was bound to say that his literary experience was limited." After copying a passage from one of Audubon's journals, this editor had the unfortunate habit of drawing his pen through the original; in this way hundreds of pages of Audubon's admirable "copper-plate" were irretrievably defaced. [13] Robert Buchanan, _The Life of Audubon_ (Bibl. No. 72), p. vi. [14] See Harriet Jay, _Robert Buchanan: Some Account of His Life, His Life's Work, and His Literary Friendships_ (London, 1903). Robert Williams Buchanan was born at Caverswell, Lancashire, August 18, 1841, and died in London, June 10, 1901. [15] For similar spelling of the name by John James Audubon, see Appendix I, Document No. 12. [16] For notice of these records of Jean Audubon and his family, see the Preface, and for the most important documents, Appendix I.