Autograph letter, signed (“J.A. Henshall”), to Elliott B. Hodge, 13 January 1888.

Cincinnati, O: 13 January 1888.

Price: $400.00


About the item

Pen and ink, 3 pp. on 2 sheets of ruled paper. 1 vols. 8vo. Old folds, minor paper flaws. Fine.

Item #345783

Henshall writes to Mr. Elliott B. Hodge, of Plymouth, N.H., concerning an unidentified specimen of Sunapee trout (in part), “The taxidermist, Mr. Dury, after skinning the specimen sent, had the flesh cooked, and he informed me that the largest on (‘what is it’) was the finest flavored trout he ever ate. I am very well satisfied with the size of the fish sent, as it will suit me fully as well as a larger one. You ask me if I ‘ever met a trout like this in any of our waters,’ to which I emphatically reply, ‘No’. … One thing is very evident to me: it is not the same fish as the oquassa of the Rangeley lakes …”

An excellent letter by Henshall, author of The Book of the Black Bass (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1881), a landmark of nineteenth century American angling.