THAMES, NEAR RICHMOND 



CHAPTER X 



Walton and Cotton's fishing-house — My visits to it — 

 Doubtful whether Walton ever saw it — Walton's letter 

 to Cotton, 1676— Unpublished letter. 



Walton and Cotton's Fishing-house in 

 Beresford Dale 



A/TR. R. B. MARSTON says, "Every angler, at 

 least every trout and grayling angler, should 

 make one grateful pilgrimage to the Fishing- 

 house erected by Cotton in 1676, and referred to 

 by him in the conversation between Piscator and 

 Viator." 



I, the present writer, have made two pilgrimages 

 to this Fishing-house, once in 1884 and again 

 in 1902, and it was with a feeling of delight almost 

 akin to veneration ; nevertheless I have been forced 

 to the conclusion that, as far as I can discover, 



