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U. S. S. ALBATROSS,   
Sausalito, Calif.,
Oct. 12, 1914.

Mr. Edward Driscoll,
R. D. Box 58,
Centralia, Wash.

Dear Driscoll:

Thanks for the information you sent me, particularly that concerning the mushy fish.  They are the ones I am trying to get a line on now.

It's interesting to note, that mushy fish are coming in from Alaska at the same time of the year as from Newport.  What time of the year do you usually get mushy fish, and for how long a time? There is another point I should like to know about, as soon as you hear of it: when halibut-spawn has been found; that is, as soon as you hear that anybody has seen any this year. 

I have enclosed a list of the trips I have a record of from off the Oregon banks; will you go over it, and make the corrections necessary, if any? Also see if I have the correct amount of "good" fish left after the mushy ones were thrown out. How many mushy ones did the "Alaska" have on her first trip down there? Then, too, since I made up my list, I suppose the "San Juan" came in, and the "Liberty", also. Didn't the "Daisy" make another trip, and with what result?