Gives two letters written to Victor G. Audubon from New York, April 28 and Sept. 9, 1833. * * * * * See also _Caledonian Mercury_, November 3, 1831, for letter to Joseph B. Kidd (No. 163), Brewer (No. 79), Bachman (No. 191), Günther (No. 204), Deane (No. 225), and Alexander Bliss, in _Autograph Leaves of our Country's Authors_, for facsimile letter of Audubon to Thomas Sully, dated "Manchester (England), Sept. 16, 1826" (Baltimore, 1864). h. Biographies 55. CHRISTOPHER NORTH (JOHN WILSON): "Noctes Ambrosianae," No. XXX, _Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine_, vol. xxi (Jan.), pp. 112-105 (_sic_). Edinburgh, 1827. 56. (ANON.): "Biographical Sketch of John James Audubon," with portrait (drawn and engraved by J. Brown); insert in G. Cuvier and P. A. Latreille, _The Animal Kingdom_, vol. i, pp. 197*-204*. London, 1830. 57. LANDER, SIR THOMAS DICK, BART., and BROWN, CAPT. THOMAS: _Biographical Sketch_, with engravings by Joseph B. Kidd. Pp. i-x, 1-184, 16mo. Edinburgh, 1833. Mainly extracted from vol. i of the _Ornithological Biography_; refers to the false rumor of Audubon's death in October, 1831, and to his plan of forming a Gallery of Paintings in Natural History, started in association with Kidd. 58. (ANON.): "Biographical Sketch of J. J. Audubon." _Miscellany of Natural History_, vol. i. 1833. Not seen. 59. DUNLAP, WILLIAM: _History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States._ 2 vols. New York, 1834. For John James Audubon, see vol. ii, pp. 402-408. 60. (ANON.) GODWIN, PARKE: "John James Audubon." _United States Magazine and Democratic Review_, N. S., vol. x, pp. 436-450. New York, 1842. See also _Out of the Past; Critical and Literary Papers_, pp. 89-110 (New York, 1870), and _Homes of American Authors_; for the last, see No. 68. 61. GRISWOLD, RUFUS W.: _The Prose Writers of America_, article "Audubon." Philadelphia, 1847. 62. LESTER, C. EDWARDS (editor): _The Gallery of Illustrious Americans_, containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the most eminent Citizens of the American Republic since the death of Washington. Plates from daguerreotypes by Brady; engraved by D'Avignon. Published from 205 Broadway, New York, by G. P. Putnam, D. Appleton & Company, and C. S. Francis & Company. New York, 1850. Issued in 24 Parts. For John James Audubon, see Part No. 7; reproduced in Spooner's _Biographical History of the Fine Arts_, vol. i, pp. 53-55 (New York, 1867). See also No. 196. 63. PHILARÈTE-CHASLES: _Etudes sur la Littérature et les Moeurs des Anglo-Américains au xixe siècle._ Pp. i-viii, 1-516. Paris, 1851. See "Audubon. Le Voyageur et le Naturaliste," pp. 68-106. An excellent review by an experienced French critic and author, who appears to have met Audubon and to have attended one of his exhibitions in Edinburgh.