" TAT " CUREEY 73 



Letter 



Burton Hall, Loughborough, 

 January 1911. 



Dear ]\Ir. Kempson — I have found a list of the Foot Beagles, also 

 a letter ^ written by Muggeridge to my old friend Harry Duberly, 

 who frequently came out with the beagles, which shows that " Pat " 

 Currey offered to sell the pack in the autumn of 1869 to the 

 followers of the beagles at Cambridge ; but he eventually kept them 

 and brought them back to Cambridge. I enclose also one of the old 

 cards of the meets. The "cap," which I remember was collected 

 at the meets, was, about 1870, done away with, I think, and a 

 subscription of £1 a term substituted. 



Did the brothers Henry and Stafford Howard buy the pack from 

 " Pat " Currey, and has that same pack been handed on as the Trinity 

 Beagles to the present time ? 



Yours sincerely, 

 (Signed) Ernest St. Maur. 



As to the question in the above letter, I may say in advance that 

 hounds seem to have passed from hand to hand always by sale till 

 Lord Milton's time. The continuity of the pack is the problem of 

 the chapter following, and is somewhat obscure. 



THE FOOT BEAGLES 



1869-70 



3Iaster. 

 W, E. Currey, M.A. 



Huntsman. 

 C. M. Meysey Thompson. 



JFhips. 

 J. F. Muggeridge. 

 Lord E. St. Maur. 



1 Held over till the next chapter. 



