HUNNEMAN & BALCII 
Counsellors at Caw 
504-507 MASSACHUSETTS BUILDING 
60 STATE STREET 
CAR LETON HUNNEMAN 
FRANCIS N. SALCH 
CABLE ADDRESS, HUNBALCH 
boston, 21st Decenter, 1909, 
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William Brewster, Esq., 
145 Brattle Street, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
My dear Mr. Brewster: 
Thank you for your interesting letter of the 17th in reply 
to my enquiry. I do wish 1 might have the benefit of of your fully 
expressed views. Don't you ever come into town-Christmas shopping 
or the like ? And if so couldn't you call me on the telephone on 
some such occasion and arrange to meet me at the Union Club or else¬ 
where for lunch,? 
As to the brant and the wild-fowl bill there is quite a 
story to tell, I feel that Forbush (of the Audubon Society, you 
know) was unfair and unscrupulous if I have the facts right. It may 
be, of course, that there is another side to the story. But as I saw 
it and heard it what happened was this. The year before the whole 
matter was quite thoroughly threshed out, and Porbush admitted in 
open committee that there was no need of stopping spring branting and 
that he would not ask for it, I may mention that almost all my 
friends among the gunners are perfectly willing to stand for 4—-— and 
did favor— - -a reasonable and discriminating spring shooting law. 
We are all perfectly willing to give up our spring sport when any 
good reason exists*»~««*~and it does exist for a good part of it. Weil, 
this year again Porbush asked for a root-and-branch bill in spite of 
