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Sir-yYour correspondent "Tapered Cast" refers to Charles Cotton. There is a treatise not much known, Charles Cotton and His River, by G. G. P. Heywood (Manchester, 1928), which is a study of Cotton’s Dove and Cotton's practice. It is useful also for understanding the neighbourhood of Beresford where Walton sometimes fished with his "adopted son" and where, of course, the celebrated fishing lodge was placed-the lodge is illustrated, I think, in the recent reprint of Major’s edition. Heywood’s is one of the two books about Cotton, and a copy is available in New Zealand through library interloan service. As anglers are fond of claiming Cotton for their own it is perhaps timely to remind them that he also wrote a handbook of "instructions for the raising, planting and cultivating all sorts of fruit trees," The Planters’ Manual (1675); and a larger part of our public may also claim him as a pioneer in another field. His work, The Compleat Gamester (1674) is-or one would expect it to be-less authoritative than his studies of angling or pruning, and must have been little consolation to him when he had eventually to surrender his various estates.
KENDRICK
SMITHYMAN
(Auckland ). ~----
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 734, 7 August 1953, Page 5
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