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in 191 1 ; against the hanging of Roger Casement in 1914; and against 

 the " lawyers arguments " used in the British Cabinet to urge and 

 justify the late war. An unusual and gallant record for a Sussex 

 gentleman of many acres, of inherited wealth and ease. 



The story told in these Diaries from year to year, sometimes from 

 day to day, the " humour, the charming good temper that flickers into 

 all corners of life" through its pages makes a richly woven background, 

 a tapestry of rich colour, for the adventure of that personal life, the 

 " life of love, the romance of travel, the delight in woods and fields and 

 skies, the pride of ancestry and race " ascribed to him by one who 

 knew him ; the many gifts, the mastery of living, that seem to belong 

 to the heroic ages of the world, that show him out as one of Plutarch's 

 men. 



June 12, 1921. A. Gregory. 



