From a letter from W. David Tomlin ("Norman") Duluth, Minn as favorite flies for trout in Michigan streams.

It included a practical treatise on fly classification[6] WHEN Mary Orvis Marbury died in 1914, the English Fishing Gazette acclaimed her as the most famous but one female angling author.

(The other was Dame Juliana Berners, an Englishwoman who wrote A Treatyse of Fysshying Wyth an Angle in 1496.)

Marbury's Favorite Flies and Their Histories, which became a best seller among anglers after it appeared in 1892 and went through nine printings by 1896, has recently been reprinted by the Wellfleet Press.

[7] Mary Orvis Marbury produced one of American fishing literature's milestone volumes, Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), which not only served generations as the bible of fly patterns but further strengthened the company's reputation for expertise and reliability[8] ...the book which captured the American wet-fly tradition at its peak was Charles' [Orvis] daughter's Favorite Flies.