Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice to Port Isabel...
...your issue of May 17, in the article about President Roosevelt's fishing on the Texas coast, you carry the report which the President sent out that all his party caught at Port Isabel was a nine-inch catfish. The inference is that tarpon fishing at Port Aransas is excellent, while at Port Isabel it is worthless. The facts are that tarpon fishing is good at both places; and the facts further are that the President did not give tarpon fishing at Port Isabel a trial...
...party arrived in the middle of the afternoon on a day when three tarpon had been caught at Port Isabel and none at Port Aransas-when weather conditions along the entire coast were unfavorable. But, by the following morning the water was in perfect shape and tarpon were there for the catching. President Roosevelt, however, sailed away at the break of day without making any effort to catch a tarpon, probably steered northward again by the Port Aransas guide who accompanied him South...
...purpose to argue the relative merits of various fishing spots on the Texas coast. They are all good. It is our hope, however, that you will print this letter to correct an entirely erroneous impression that the casual reader might form of fishing on the coast of the Port Isabel-Brownsville section, so that justice may be done...
...death in 1890, Burton became a literary sensation, was knighted by Queen Victoria-not for his embarrassingly faithful translation but for his explorations. His next effort, a translation of The Scented Garden, was to make "Mrs. Grundy howl." But the storm he foresaw over its publication broke instead over Isabel when horrified litterateurs, among them Burton's close crony Swinburne, learned that immediately after Burton's death she had destroyed the manuscript along with his diaries for 40 years...