My mother had several beautiful parrots and some monkeys; one of the latter was a full-grown male of a very large species.

I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.

My drawings of Owls and other birds of similar plumage were much improved. I have continued the style ever since.

Well, I heard he liked to eat old wives’ eggs.

Hundreds of anecdotes I could relate. It may happen that the pages I am now scribbling over, may hereafter be published.

I have now 42 Dollars, health, and as much anxiety to pursue My Plans of Accomplishing My collection as Ever I had and Hope God Will Grant Me the same Powers to proceed.

This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse… I Calculated, to Live and died in Comfort, Our Business Was good of course We agreed.

To my Lucy I now offer myself with my stock, wares and chattels and all the devotedness of heart attached to such an enthusiastic being as I am.

What! Have I come here to mimic nature in her grandest enterprise – to add my caricature of one of the wonders of the world to those which I see here? No – I give...

How strangely Nature has provided them with the means of securing their eggs and young from their arch-enemy Man.

How strangely our Bark is tossed-Poor as Job yesterday-rich as Croesus Tomorrow!-and who could not wish to live to enjoy this Life of pleasurable anxiety? Not I believe me.

Who is the stranger… that can form an adequate conception of the extent of its primeval woods-of the glory of those columnar trunks, that for centuries have waved in the breeze?

I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed.

My plan is to publish one Number at my own expense and risk, and travel with it under my arm-and beg my way.

I must put myself in a train of doing… and thereby keep the machine in motion.

The mercantile business did not suit me.

My father… sailed as a sea captain to the West Indies, where in 1785 I found light and life in the New World.

Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my humble talents.

I do anything for money now a days.

You have seen a poor old man.

When, for the first time… I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean… my heart sunk within me… The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow…...

The Purchasing of Too Many goods sold on credit of course Lost, reduced us-Divided us.

I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found in congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.