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[Written landscape in two columns]

Newcastle [?]
[?] 1887[?]

W. J Sha[?] Esq

Braidford[?]

Dear Sir

Yours of May [26]th in hand
with enclosed stamps.

It is quite impossible
to give your friend a
supply of young speckled
trout this season as they
have all been [?]

In fact we did not have
a sufficient [amount?] of fish.

The [?]
app[lied?] for last [?]

Your [?]
will next [?]
[?]

[Faded sign-off]

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