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some talk with you on the subject, if you have 

 time. 



" I should advise you not specifying any par- 

 ticular days for hunting the Brigstock country, but 

 have it left to your discretion to do the best you can. 

 It would probably be the best for you and the hounds 

 to do more there before Christmas than when the 

 days are at the shortest, and then in February to 

 send one lot of hounds to Brigstock kennel for a 

 week. Spencer did that, and every one seemed 

 satisfied, and it did the hounds good. The foresters 

 are not gluttons at hunting in the winter, however 

 much they may like it at this time of year. 

 " Pray excuse all this rigmarole, 

 " Believe me, 



" Yours very truly, 



"M. Clerk. 



" Spencer is the person we really have to look 

 to for support. There is no use in a few cottagers 

 getting together and thinking to settle matters." 



Met at Biggen Park on 23rd April. Last day. 

 On 26th went to stay with Naylor at Hooton for 

 Chester Races ; George Why te- Melville and John 

 Welby were there ; saw " Stockwell," the biggest 

 thoroughbred horse I ever saw. 



On 1 6th June, 1866, Lord Rosslyn died in 

 London. He had been very ill for some time. He 

 was buried at Roslin Chapel, and I went with Lough- 

 borough, John Balfour and John Whyte-Melville by 

 the night train to Scotland. We went straight to 



