Home of a Noted Author in California 
ANOTHER CORNER IN THE LIBRARY 
Old Holder Family Colonial Desk, Lynn (1659). The tuna on the wall tipped the boat over a mile off shore. The 
fish was secured after a long swim 
and was planned to admit the greatest amount of 
sunshine into all rooms and to render the house¬ 
keeping problems as simple as possible. It faces the 
south and reference to the plans will show how suc¬ 
cessfully these problems have been solved. Its form 
is regular and its construction good. Characteristic 
Quaker simplicity,* however, prevails on the exte¬ 
rior while the interior is lolled with charming 
pieces of old mahogany and old china, valuable 
books and priceless works of art, as well as souve¬ 
nirs of the chase and the owner’s devotion to the 
gentle art of fishing. 
That Mr. Holder is an ardent angler may well be 
inferred when one reads any of the following books, 
all of which are from his pen: 
“Along the Florida Reef,” “The Big Game 
Fishes of America,” “The Log of a Sea Angler,” 
“Half Hours with Nature: Fishes and Reptiles,” 
“The Anglers,” “Angling,” and “Big Game at Sea,” 
while, as we write, a book entitled “Fish Stories” 
is just going to press wherein he has collaborated 
with David Starr Jordan of the Leland Stanford 
University. The living-room is particularly attractive, 
due to the large bay window admitting a flood of 
* Mr. Holder’s ancestor, Christopher Holder, organized in 1656 at Sandwich, 
Mass., the first Society of Friends, and was the author of the First Declaration 
of Faith of Quakers. His farm consisted of fifty acres, where now the heart 
of Newport stands. 
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