39^ REMINISCENCES OF 



doing so would confer a great favour on our hunt 

 committee (of which I am one) as well as on the 

 hunting people here generally, 



" Be kind enough to send me a line at your con- 

 venience, and oblige, 



" Yours very truly, 



"J. F. Jenings." 



" Shardeloes, Amersham, 

 " 23rrf January, 1869. 



" My Dear Thomson, — 



" My parson comes from London, and tells 

 me he hears you give up the Pytchley. You will, 

 like me, be miserable without hounds. Have you 

 any fancy to hunt a bad country, with a good sub- 

 scription (about £2,000 per annum ; kennels, hounds 

 and stables found), as this country will be vacant in 

 a few days? I am not authorised to offer you this 

 country, as I do not think any one but myself knows 

 that it will be vacant. But when it is, I have a good 

 deal to do with choosing the Master, as several 

 landed proprietors will do what I advise. Don't 

 mention this till you have written to me, and if you 

 fancy it, wait my answer. 



" Yours very truly, 



" T. T. Drake. 



" Three days a week." 



New Forest. — Lindesay Shedden and Martin 

 Powell's letters : — 



