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a bronchial attack. My daughter sends her love. 

 Yours very sincerely, Walter Gilbey." 



Tegetmeier was always exceedingly fond of 

 joking, which he would sometimes carry to the 

 length of teasing, and even into the giving of 

 presents. The following epistolary joke I thought 

 pretty good at the time — especially the accom- 

 paniment. It was my own letter to him, returned 







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Ak 89th Bdsthday Card. 



to me, with only some four words altered and 

 written over in green ink. I happened to be 

 interested in a friend's effort to popularise in 

 England the Spanish claret known as Rioja, 

 and sent Tegetmeier a bottle at Christmas, 1898, 

 with the following note — the persons mentioned 



