John James Audubon

To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was…

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions…

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared…

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home…

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely…