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the eighty-third year of my age, yet I will 

 forget both, and next month begin a Pilgrimage 

 to beg your pardon, for I would dye in your 

 favour ; and till then, will live, 

 " Sir, 



" Your most affectionate 



" Father and Friend, 

 " IZAAK WALTON. 



" London, April 29, 1676." 



"There is no evidence in either volume to 

 show that Walton ever did perform this 

 pilgrimage." 



UNPUBLISHED LETTER OF IZAAK WALTON 



(Notes and Queries, 2nd Series, No. 20, 



May 17, 1856) 



The following is a copy of a letter from Izaak 

 Walton, of which the original autograph is among 

 the MSS. in the Library of Trinity College, 

 Dublin 



" S r , I came well from Winton to London, 

 about 3 weikes past : at that time I left Do r 

 Hawkins well ; and my dafter (after a greate 

 danger of child berth) not very well, but by 



