IOS APPENDIX V. 



APPENDIX V. 



CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO MR. BRISCOE'S HUNT. 



(i) Letter from the Hon, John Ponsonby, afterwards Lord 

 Bessborough, to Mr, John Power, blaster, Kilkenny 

 Foxhounds. 



BESSBOROUGH, October Q///, 1842. 

 MY DEAR POWER, 



I am told your return to the Kilkenny Races is doubtful, 

 so I write instead of taking the chance of seeing you there. 

 I wanted to see you to talk to you about the hunting. We 

 are going to make different arrangements about our little 

 pack, and are anxious that Mr. Briscoe's followers be able 

 to have some more fox-hunting than they have. The foxes 

 in the coverts on our estate are very abundant, and I should 

 imagine that it would do them no harm to be scouted 

 about ; and as you are not often in this country, I am going 

 to propose to you to give Mr. Briscoe one draw a week 

 from these coverts, excepting, of course, when you are 

 down, when you know me well enough to be one who 

 would do nothing to injure your sport. If this is not ask- 

 ing too much, we shall all here feel very much obliged to 

 you. An early answer will oblige me, as our stay here is 

 rather limited. When you come to hunt this country, 

 which I think you do early in the season, I hope you send 

 us word and come and stay here. 



Yours truly, 



JOHX PONSONHY. 



