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Let me at once acknowledge that any interest these 

 "Leaves from a Hunting Diary" may possess for those who 

 have hunted in Essex, or who may be hunting in years to 

 come, will be due almost entirely to the photographs and 

 sketches with which they are illustrated, and to the extracts 

 (never before published) from the interesting hunting journals 

 of the late Charles Ranken Vickerman. 



It is, therefore, with no small feeling of gratitude that I 

 have to express niy thanks to those who have so very kindly 

 and generously placed photographs of themselves and their 

 favourite hunters at my disposal for this work. To that ex- 

 cellent amateur photographer, Mr. Arthur Salvin Bowlby, 

 I am particularly indebted. 



To Mr. H. A. Cole I owe a good deal for the very con- 

 scientious way he has rendered the sketches from nature. 

 I am also under a deep obligation to Mr. C. Vickerman 

 for giving me every assistance in carrying out his father's 

 wishes relative to his hunting journals. 



A good many of my "hunting leaves" have from time to 

 time appeared in print, mostly in the Essex Times. To the 

 proprietors of that paper, and to the proprietors of the Essex 

 County CJi7'onicle, Essex. Weekly News, The Field, and County 

 Gentleman, for permission to reproduce such accounts, and for 

 a similar sanction from the proprietors of Bailys Magazine 

 for the use of their portraits of Mr. C. E. Green, and the late 

 Mr. Henry Petre, General Mark Wood, and Mr. Henry 

 Vigne, I return my warmest thanks. 



That my productions will be read by any who have not 

 taken part in the runs herein mentioned I do not expect. 

 Essex is not Leicestershire, nor have I the pen of that 



