FREDERIC H. KENNARD 

 Landscape Architect 



Devonshire Street Witherspoon Building 



BOSTON, MA SS. PHIL A DELPHI A , PA . 



March 5, 1913. 



Mr. Walter Beaae, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



My dear Mr. Dean©:- 



Sottas to miss you just now, and regret that I 

 ha^e never previously informed of Miss Audobon' s 



version of the history of those Nut tall hooks. They 

 were on the list of McKechnie's hooks that were for sale, 

 which was going around for ninths, and were sold for 

 #20. on. i should hav« bought them myself except for the 

 fact that I already possessed two editions of Nut tail's 

 hooks, the original, as well as Montague Chamberlain' s, 

 and I did not feel that I could afford to buy another 

 set just because it had once belonged to Mr. Audobon. 

 If I had known about them I night have purchased them and 

 given them to Miss Audobon. 



I, of course, knew a good deal about McKechnie' s 

 affairs, and it is possible that he may have sometime 

 told me about this; but if he did I certainly forgot 

 about it. At the tine of fade's death, everybody seems 

 to have been claiming everything in his collection, and I 

 remember hp aring Miss Audobon' a names mentioned among 

 others, but that is all. 



Sincerely yours, 



