CHAPTER XVIII 



A FITTING REQUIEM 



Amongst the hundreds of letters Lady Yarborough received 

 after my brother's death, I have chosen extracts from some — 

 letters from men and women of all classes. One and all in 

 different fashion express how they regarded his loss to them- 

 selves, not only from the point of view of sportsmen and sports- 

 women, but as a dear personal friend. 



The letters are so unlike the usual letters of condolence, 

 that I have thought they would show to those who did not 

 know my brother personally, better than any words of mine 

 can express, the kind of feeling he inspired in the minds of 

 others. 



There are no doubt some who in reading these extracts 

 will say : What are these ? Just written off when the mind of 

 that man or woman felt he or she must write as a matter of 

 ordinary courtesy, and yet I cannot but think many will see 

 eye to eye with me, and find in them a spontaneous and 

 genuine expression of grief. 



This after all is the best requiem of man or woman. What 

 they have built by their lives in the hearts of others, is their 

 truest epitaph, and for this reason I have thought it well to 

 publish some of these independent sidelights on my brother's 

 character. 



These requiem letters convey the sentiments of many of the 



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