THE COMPLEAT ANGLER
IZAAK WALTON’S COTTAGE. TO BE PRESERVED AS A MUSEUM. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, December 27. An event which will interest anglers the world over is announced by the friends of Mr Tuppen Davis, a rich American business man and a lover of England, who died recently. They have arranged with Air Dunn, the Alayor of Stafford (England), for the purchase of Izaak Walton’s cottage at Shallowford and its preservation as a museum. It will bo stocked with books of anglers’ lore contributed by Americans. £550 for the purchase and restoration of the cottage was contributed in honor of Air Davies. Izaak Walton willed the cottage for charitable purposes, and it was owned by the King Edward VI. Grammar School.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18160, 28 December 1922, Page 4
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126THE COMPLEAT ANGLER Evening Star, Issue 18160, 28 December 1922, Page 4
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