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Bowness, 



Nov. 17, 1867. 

 MY DEAR MR. JONES, 



I now forward you the last Field, in which, at page 

 410, you will see an account of your two fish. It must be 

 rather a change for them from the Rothay to the British 

 Museum. I should have written to you to acknowledge the 

 receipt of the fish, but have been far from well. I showed 

 the fish to many people here. I said they were the Salmo 

 ferox; one of the fishermen said they were the Grey Trout ; 

 another that he had never seen anything like them before ; a 

 third that they were Sea- (meaning, I suppose, migratory) 

 fish. To-morrow, if fine and calm, we shall be taking char 

 spawn. If you would like to come and look on or help, we 

 shall be I suppose somewhere between Wray Castle and 

 Bell Grange soon after ten o'clock. If you think Mr. Balrne 

 or General le Fleming would like to see the description of 

 our fish, pray show them the paper, but as it does not belong 

 to me please let me have it back in two or three days with 

 the direction written on the cover, as it has to form part of a 

 volume of The Field. Mr. Balme wishes to have some char 

 spawn would the General like some as well ? I believe it 

 does better when taken in February, as then the weather 

 gets warmer and the eggs hatch with much more certainty 

 than they do through the cold of the winter. 



Believe me, yours truly, 



T. ELMS. 



P.S. I did not know Buckland's address, or would have 

 sent the fish to him, but the authority of The Field is quite 

 as good. 



FRANK BUCKLAND TO MR. F. M. T. JONES, 

 Secretary of State Home Dept. 



Feb., '68. 

 DEAR SIR, 



Thanks for your kindness. The fish was certainly a 

 "Great Lake Trout," Salmo ferox. He has gone too far, or 

 I would have had him stuffed for you. 



Yours obly., 



FRANK BUCKLAND. 



P.S. These fish are indigenous to your part of the world, 

 not common. 



