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the front of " The Fishing Gazette " the 

 date of Walton's birth and death every 

 week for getting on for twenty years now, 

 it was not until Dr. Henshall, who has 

 charge of the angling exhibit at the 

 Chicago World's Fair, wrote to me 

 a month or two ago to say that they 

 intended to celebrate Walton's birthday 

 (as described in his letter to me, quoted 

 on p. 104), that my attention was drawn 

 to the interest connected with August 

 9*h, 1893. 



R. B. M. 



RICHMOND, SURREY, 

 April 1894. 



