MR. THOMAS THORN HILL MORLAND 139 



Sheepstead, April 8th, 1843. 



Dear Lord Gifford, — I shall be happy to act in 

 concert with you in any way calculated to promote 

 sport, and with this view will, with pleasure, hunt the 

 Buscot and Coleshill coverts alternately with you 

 through the next season, in the manner suggested by 

 your letter of the 5th inst. 



Of course, in entering into this arrangement it will 

 be understood that the old countries remain as they 

 did, and that, in fact, it is simply an arrangement 

 between ourselves. I mention this, as I consider the 

 coverts in question belong to the county which I 

 hunt ; and being in the position of a trustee, I am 

 bound to do nothing which might affect my successor. 

 In your letter you mention the coverts of Mr. 

 Bennett of Faringdon. This I presume, is a mistake, 

 and that you mean the coverts of Mr. Bennet, of 

 Hardwell, as the coverts of Mr. Bennett of Faring- 

 don have been drawn by the hounds hunting the 

 eastward portion of the country ever since the tem- 

 porary division of 1832 took place, and I have 

 invariably drawn them. 



I am, &c., &c. 

 Thos. Thornhill Morland. 



{^Private. ~) 



Sheepstead, March i6th, 1844. 

 Dear Lord Gifford, — I received yours of yester- 

 day. I do not recollect any satisfactory arrangement 

 we came to about Buscot when we last met ; far from 

 it, as from what I gathered in conversation with you, 

 the impression on my mind is that, whatever your 

 own wishes on the subject, there are gentlemen, sup- 

 porters of your hounds, who do not approve of my 

 hounds drawing Buscot, which I told you I con- 

 sidered, after all that had passed, very illiberal on 



