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manner, as I feel convinced that, unless a thorough 

 understanding, in the strictest sense of the term, is 

 entered into between the gentlemen of the two 

 countries, jealousies and disagreements will be con- 

 stantly engendered between neighbours, to the mutual 

 discomfort and disadvantage of all parties. 



Yours, &c., 

 Thos. Thornhill Morland. 



Cirencester, May ist, 1844. 



Dear Morland, — I did not answer your last 

 letter, because I wished Folkestone to settle the 

 business ; he does not like to interfere, and all that 

 can now be done, I suppose, must be for the good 

 of all parties on amicable terms. In your official 

 documents you mention " Coverts which belong to 

 my country." Now I am in a state of ignorance as 

 regards these coverts, as they may be, after the way 

 I have been treated since I hunted the V.W.H. 

 country, either the Lydiard Woods or Williamstrip, 

 as I now consider myself not secure of any covert, 

 as my country is, I am told, a cribbed one. 



Now if we two as friendly masters of hounds can 

 come to any arrangement between us I am willing 

 to agree to anything. 



Folkestone mentions the renewal of the letter I 

 sent last year. That I am very willing to do ; the 

 only alteration I should like to make would be that 

 the word " alternate " should be left out, as the 

 Highworth party last season took it into their heads 

 that I was to hunt it as well as you ; whereas, if you 

 agree, I should wish you to hunt Buscot after cub- 

 hunting, which, I believe, I have the right to do by 

 the letter of last year, only should not feel myself 

 precluded from drawing it for a second fox. 



1 am going into Devon, and if you agree with 



