342 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



Richard Marriott to Henry John Conyers, January 27TH, 1831. 



My Dear Sir,— I am much obliged by your letter stating your 

 appointments, and am truly sorry the frost should again have 

 prevented us the pleasure of seeing you in this country, as the 

 people in this immediate neighbourhood are very much dissatisfied 

 with you for not hunting the country oftener, and swear by all that's 

 good they will destroy every fox they can. Would it not be better, 

 and more conducive to your sport, if Newman were to draw Foxes, 

 Grand Courts, Boxted, and Nupister occasionally, when you could not 

 conveniently come down ? I know it would meet with the approba- 

 tion of the neighbourhood, and I think would be the very best way of 

 keeping them quiet. So much money and trouble as I bestow upon 

 the preservation of foxes, it does certainly (as may be supposed) grieve 

 me very much to know they are destroyed the first walk they take. 

 You have not been misinformed respecting my determination of not 

 stopping any more this season. I told Newman so before he met 

 here the last time, and every earth was open, as he had occasion to 

 expect they would be. Should the plan which I have submitted to 

 you meet with your approbation, you will very much oblige me by 

 stating your wishes to Newman immediately, as it really is of conse- 

 quence. Although I will not stop the earths, I will arrange matters 

 in such a way that you need not fear running to ground. Perhaps 

 you will be kind enough to give me a line at your earliest convenience. 

 — Believe me, my dear Sir, yours most truly, 



Rd. Marriott. 



Henry John Conyers to Richard Marriott, January 29TH, 1831, 



Dear Sir, — I have to return you my thanks for your preservation 

 of foxes, because I have no doubt I may benefit occasionally from it, 

 though I am well aware the preservation is not for me to benefit by, 

 but it is for the benefit of Mr. Newman's sport. I now begin to see 

 the folly of giving up Panfield Hall for Mr. Newman to draw as well 

 as myself: because I was kind enough to do that, it is expected I am 

 to give up more, and if I was a fool to give up Grand Courts, Boxted, 



