I returned home
at 4.15am this morning
Salmon Fisheries Office
4 Old Palace Yard
Westminster S.W
July 19 [187-]
Your Royal Highness
I am afraid I shall not be able to meet you at the Zoological tomorrow morning as I must go to Brighton to help them on to get the Aquarium opened on the 27th. When at the Duke of Northumberland's fishing trap on the [?] last Tuesday I [saw?] the fish you have received swimming about alive and I asked the conservators to send him to you. I am glad you got him all right. At page 8 of the report sent herewith you will see what is going on in the [?] whence came your trout. If you see the Duke of Northumberland please talk to him about it.
Yours most
obedient and obliged
Frank Buckland
Sans titre