166 LETTERS TO MR. TEGETMEIER [CHAP. xvi. 



Amongst applicants for my leaflet, the Duchess of 

 Somerset and also Lady Alvvyne Compton have asked for 

 copies, which I am glad of. If it were " fashionable" not to 

 protect sparrows this would go far with some people. I am 

 longing to see the reply leaflet. I expect I am roundly 

 abused, but I think it is rather strong to head something or 

 other in the " Animal's Friend " for September " God Save 

 the Sparrow." I expect we shall very likely have Maine 

 and Auxerre, and Frederick the Great, and the cherries and 

 cockroaches and the whole story resuscitated ! 



September n, 1897. 



The Secretary of the Yorkshire Union of Agricultural 

 Associations asked for some leaflets, and with his consent I 

 have sent him down 2,000 copies, which gives one for each 

 member of the Agricultural Clubs or Chambers in the 

 Yorkshire Union, and the matter is to be brought before 

 the next quarterly meeting, with the view, the Secretary 

 says, of seeing about asking the Board of Agriculture to 

 remove P. domesticus from the list of protected birds. Mr. 

 Crawford wrote me acknowledgment of receipt of the 

 leaflets I sent by his desire to the Board of Agriculture, 

 and said that next week, when the Secretary returns, they 

 will be laid before the Board. I wonder what they will do ? 

 Daily applications are running from seventeen or eighteen 

 to thirty and some very good. To-day I have one from 

 Smyrna and one from Stavanger, Norway. 



September 19, 1897. 



The applications are going on so well that I have had 

 to order a fourth 5,000 of the leaflets to be printed as soon 

 as can be managed, and of these over 2,000 are bespoken. 

 A few days ago 3,000 were wanted for a Scotch centre, the 

 Agent-General for New South Wales will send out 500, 

 and other distributions are floating about ; I think this is 

 not bad. 



October 16, 1897. 



As you will see by the enclosed, I am now working on 

 the twenty-first thousand. I have only about fifty copies 

 left, and Mr. Newman has sent out some of the twenty- 

 second thousand, so I think that we are doing well. One 

 of the largest amounts asked for lately has been 1,000 

 for the Lancashire County Council, and also a little while 

 ago Lady Aberdeen wrote for a small supply from the 

 Government House, Canada. 



October 27, 1897. 



I hope you will be pleased to hear that I have brought 



