The Audubon Reader (94 page)

The Library of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the John James Audubon Museum, John James Audubon State Park, Henderson, Kentucky; the Bibliothèque Centrale of the Musée Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris; the Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky; the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey; the Stark Museum, Orange, Texas; and the Beineke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, all generously allowed the editor access to their collections.

The editor was unable to determine a copyright holder for Howard Corning’s
Letters of John James Audubon
, 1930 (Boston: Club of Odd Volumes).

Richard Rhodes is the author or editor of more than twenty works of history, biography and fiction. His biography
John James Audubon: The Making of an American
was published in 2004. His 1986 history of the development of the first atomic bombs,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
, won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and a National Book Award. A Kansas native, he lives in Northern California.

EASTERN BLUEBIRD
(Sialia sialis)
1863.17.113
Collection of the New-York Historical Society