The Keswick Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR - _ Green 



EVENING DRESS Scarlet coat, green collar and facings 



MASTER - Julian Morris, Esq. 



SECRETARY FrancU Lee Thimnan. M. D., Keswick, 



Albemarle County, Va. 



HUNTSMAN - - - The Master 



KENNEL HUNTSMAN "Tipper " Morris 



HON. WHIPPERS-IN \ '«». Francis Lee Thurman.M. D. 



f 2nd, E. H. Joslm, Esq. 



HOUNDS - 12 couples \ 4 couples, English 



( 8 couples, American 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE Keswick, Albemarle County. Va. 



DAYS OF MEETING - Tuesday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON - November 1st to April 1 5fh 



THE Keswick Hunt Club is perhaps the strongest organization of 

 its kind near Charlottesville, which, as has been said, is one of the 

 fox-hunting centres of Virginia. 

 The present Secretary, Dr. Francis Lee Thurman, who has been identi- 

 fied with the Club since its early beginnings and has always been its chron- 

 icler, has been kind enough to allow the authors to make use of an article 

 on the history of the Hunt, written for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 

 February, 1 907, from which much of the information as to dates and events 

 has been drawn. 



On December 1 0th, 1 896, a number of gentlemen devoted to sport met 

 at the historic home of F. M. Randolph, Esq., " Cloverfields," and organ- 

 ized themselves into a club whose objects were "social intercourse, and fox- 

 and drag-hunting." 



These gentlemen, who constitute the charter members of the Club, were: 



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