The Audubon Magazine, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from The Audubon Magazine, Vol. 2: Published in the Interests of the Audubon Society for the Protection of Birds, February, February 1888, to January, 1889 Shortly after my articles appeared in The Auk, I was favored with a very kind letter from Mr. John Henry Gurney, père, of Northrepps, Norwich, England, who presented me with a fine and large photograph of Audubon, taken from the famous oil painting which hangs in the palace at St. Petersburg, Russia. This painting was evidently copied from a photograph of Audubon, the original of which latter is now in my possession, it having been presented to me with the utmost generosity by Mr. Henry K. Coale, of Chicago, the President of the Ridgway Ornithological Club of that city. The original photograph is now before me, and I should judge from it that Audubon at the time it was taken must have been considerably over fifty years of age, as his hair is nearly white, while his side-whiskers are entirely so. He wears a loose, semi-standing shirt collar to that garment, without any necktie. His black silk vest is unbuttoned half-way down from the top, and his coat is of the old-fashioned black broadcloth style, so commonly worn in his day by gentlemen, and especially by savants, advanced in years. He looks grandly out of the picture here, and the fine old face is one we can dwell upon for a long time without tiring, and our interest is sure to come back to us, as fresh as ever, when we regard the features. It is my intention at present to have an enlarged portrait made from this photograph some day. Mr. Coale tells me that this picture was presented to Dr. J. W. Velie by Mrs. Audubon herself, and Dr. Velie gave it to Mr. Coale. I have a copy of the naturalists life, written by his widow from his journal, which he kept up with more or less fullness during his rambles and journeys. It seems to me I have read the book through as many as a dozen times, and I am sure I am by no means through with it yet. We all know the little work, and revere it. Sometimes, however, we find little snatches here and there which Mrs. Audubon did not record, as they are the observations of others. Mr. Coale has collected and given me a few of these relics, mostly from periodicals and newspapers. One is a reprint, made by himself, from "Gleason´s Pictorial," (Vol. III., No. 13, p. 196) and a very quaint old account it is, too, being illustrated by a coarse woodcut of Audubon, when I should say he was about thirty-three or thirty-four years of age. Another account is published in a Chicago newspaper in August, 1876, by a gentleman living in Henderson, Ky. This writer tells us that, "As near as we can learn, Mr. Audubon moved to the Red Banks, or Henderson, about the year 1810 or 1812. He married Miss Louise [Lucy] Bakewell, of Louisville, who bore him two sons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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