Re: [h-cost] Dolly Varden, was Victorian gown?

2010-03-09 Thread otsisto
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Re: [h-cost] Dolly Varden, was Victorian gown?

2010-03-09 Thread Rickard, Patty
There's also a trout by that name: In his book, Inland Fishes of California, Peter Moyle recounts a letter sent to him on March 24, 1974 from Mrs Valerie Masson Gomez: My grandmother's family operated a summer resort at Upper Soda Springs on the Sacramento River just north of the present town o

[h-cost] Dolly Varden, was Victorian gown?

2010-03-09 Thread Kate Bunting
Message: 11 Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:36:32 -0800 From: K?the Barrows To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] victorian gown? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > It looks to me like it could be a fancy-dress costume from the 1880s that > was supposed to b