From John James Audubon 7 April 1836

My Dear Sir -

Along with this, I send one hundred and thirty one American Bird Skins, which I beg of you to present in my name to the Philosophical Society of Cambridge. These skins have been taken at random from my numerous Collection at my Engravers Shop Mr Havell and the list which I also send you of them being drawn by one of his shopmen is of course incorrect, but as all the Species are already published in my Ornithological Biographies and represented in my illustrations of the Birds of America, a very little trouble to any of the Members will suffice I trust to identify the whole.

With sincerest regard and esteem

I remain as ever Your Friend & Servant

John J. Audubon

[Written on envelope]

"I ought to have paid the carriage of the Ciasse but alas alas! The American Woodsman is poor"