A BELGIAN FISHING HOLIDAY MAXWELL (Archibald Montgomery, Colonel 36th Regiment of Foot, d. 1845)

Long Autograph Letter Signed to 'My Dear Sir' (old pencil note 'J. Griffiths'), explaining "it would ill repay D'Ewes my inviting him here for the express purpose of flogging the water", he spent the previous day taking Lord Bolingbroke round his stretch for just one trout, "we are ... living ... hugger-mugger ... without cook - almost without a chair ... or a plate ... from taking an empty house ... I have been ... completely diddled", he knows D'Ewes "is rather devious & cunning in the gastronomic art", but he can offer "a tough beef steak", with "good liquor" from his wine-merchant Mr Cries, he suggests D'Ewes try for a day's permission for two on Count Merci d'Argenteau's water, "I could not do him, or his trout, any harm if I had the Arms of Briareus with fifty rods in each and as many hooks", about four years ago Col Webber Smith's party "made one of their servants fish", since when the Count has become "inexorable", 4 sides 8vo., 71 Rue St Germain, Huy, Belgium, 5th - 7th June light traces of old transparent paper without loss

Huy is in beautiful country on the Meuse. Written 2 months before the revolt that separated Belgium from Holland. From a group of letters addressed to the writer and traveller Julius Griffiths.

Item Date:  1830

Stock No:  50378      £95

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