46 THE TRINITY FOOT BEAGLES 



[If the reader will refer to the previous letter he will find much 

 the same information, so that this letter would have been superfluous 

 did it not give one or two fresh details. I had mistaken the 

 narrative for an account of the arrival of an early pack of beagles at 

 Cambridge, through a careless reading of the text, and had written 

 to Mr. Hoare again in my thirst for further and fuller information. — 

 F. C. K.] 



It was the foundation of " The Drag," a generation before my 

 time, and the dinner you mention at Magdalene College was after 

 their first drag, run over Cottenham Pastures, then all new double 

 post and rails. — Yours truly, 



Chakles E. G. Hoaee. 



Letter fiiom Mr. Courtney Tracey, M.O.H. 



KiRKSTYLE, West End, Southampton, 

 December 12, 1910. 



Dear Sir — In answer to your letter of November 30 (1910) 

 respecting the Trinity Beagles, I shall be very glad to give you any 

 particulars I can remember, but I kept no diary, and can only speak 

 from memory. You would help me much if you could let me know 

 when I left Trinity. I was there in 1862, and founded the pack, in 

 which I am still much interested. — Yours truly, 



CouRTiNAY Tracey. 



Another Letter 



KiRKSTYLE, West End, Southampton, 



Umlated. 



Dear Sir — I am sorry I have been so long in answering your 

 letter of December 27 respecting the Trinity Foot Beagles. I 

 hoped to have found some notes on the subject, but have quite failed. 



[Oh, these lost notes ! The burning of the Library at Alexantlria 

 and the destruction of mediaeval books at the " blessed Eeformation " 

 are as nothing to them. — F. C. K.] 



When I started them my Whips were Bagnall, of St. Jolin's, 

 and Sir Henry Boy n ton, Bart., of Magdalene. There was a small 



