When The Bird And The Book Disagree,

When The Bird And The Book Disagree, Believe The Bird.

To Have Been Torn From The Study Would Have Been As Death; My Time Was Entirely Occupied With Art.

My Drawings At First Were Made Altogether In Watercolors, But They Wanted Softness And A Great Deal Of Finish.

The Fur Company May Be Called The Exterminating Medium Of These Wild And Almost Uninhabitable Regions, Which Cupidity Or The Love Of Money Alone Would Induce Man To Venture Into. Where Can I Now Go And Find Nature Undisturbed?

I Can Scarcely Manage To Scribble A Tolerable English Letter. I Know That I Am Not A Scholar, But Meantime I Am Aware That No Man Living Knows Better Than I Do The Habits Of Our Birds.