292 MEMOIR OF 



" I was greatly struck by your exuberant 

 spirits in the hunting-field ; much more like a 

 schoolboy than a man of eighty. May you live 

 to see many more such runs as these afforded ; 

 and when you can no longer see them, may you 

 talk them over, like your rare old friend, Alec 

 Luttrell." 



The following communication from a lady, a 

 near relative of Mr. Luttrell's, is so interesting 

 that, with her kind permission, it may well find 

 a place in this memoir : — 



"On the 28th December, 1876, Mr. Russell 

 was on a visit to his old college friend, the Rev. 

 A. F. Luttrell, of East Ouantockshead, then in 

 his eighty-third year ; and on the following day 

 (after going on the Ouantock Hills on foot, to 

 look for the hounds of Mr. Luttrell, of Dunster, 

 who was hunting near) he (Russell) went on to 

 St. Audries, the seat of Sir Alexander Acland 

 Hood, to dine and sleep, and to be present at 

 the tenants' ball on that evening the 29th. During 

 dinner he mentioned as a curious coincidence 

 that, on looking over some family papers, 

 he found that in the Christmas week of 1776 

 his father had made a journey on horseback 

 from Meath, near Hatherleigh, to Dunster, to 

 pass a few days at the Castle, with his old 

 friend and schoolfellow Mr. Luttrell, the then 

 ' Squire ' of Dunster ; and now, in the Christmas 

 week of 1876, their two sons were passing 



