Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
Painter, Illustrator
Size: 200 items (on 2 partial microfilm reels)
Summary: Letters from Audubon to his wife, Lucy, and his son, Victor. Letters refer to personal affairs, ornithology and publications. Also included is a fragment of Audubon's journal, New Orleans, 1821.
Painter, illustrator, ornithologist. Born Haiti, West Indies.
Lent for microfilming, 1955, by the American Philosophical Society.
Microfilm reels P34 (fr. 239-439) and P35 (fr. 1-38) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
John James Audubon and Audubon family letters, [ca. 1783-1845]. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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