Autograph letter signed J. J. Audubon to naturalist Richard Harlan, discussing Audubon's publication of The Birds of America
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Should I live long enough to deserve her applause I shall die happy. A remarkable signed manuscript letter from John James Audubon, which addresses in detail the publication of his landmark work The Birds of America. Audubon may have deemed the Florida landscape poor beyond any idea that can be given in a common letter, but in the present correspondence he also reports his discovery of a new species of Ibis, which he proposes to name Fantatus Fuscus. Additionally, he
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