Gladstone (J[ohn] R[obert])
Manuscript Fly-Fishing Notebook, 19th century notebook containing patterns for 62 Trout flies, notes on making an Eel spear, receipts (recipes) for line dressing, varnish, boot dressing, dyes for fly materials, mayfly wings, etc. and an address list for tacklemakers, no date but instructions for one dye is from 'The Field' of 1868, half leather binding with marbled boards and edges.
[Sir John Robert Gladstone, 1852-1926, Baronet of Fasque, nephew of Prime Minister W.E. Gladstone. The notebook was acquired at the sale of the Fasque Gladstone library in 2008]
Brown (E.C.) 1/6 G.R., A collection of game bird feathers, collected May 1915 in Hasan Abdal (Pakistan), possibly while on military service with the Gurkha Rifles, feathers from Quail, See-See, Chika, Black Partridge, Green Crested Plover, Lesser Booming Bittern, Teal, Gadwell, Mallard, Various Pochard, Full and Jack Snipe, multiple feathers from each species, mounted in notebook (covers worn) (2)