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who hunted the T.F.B. before I took them, but I daresay I could 

 find out. 



I think it was in 1870 that a Coniujittee consisting of— 

 W. H. Eodwell, 

 Alfred Tabor, 



E. Stafford Howard (my brother), 

 and myself, 

 took the hounds, and as tar as I remember Eodwell hunted them for 

 a season.i After that I hunted them till the end of the 1872-73 

 season. 



Then G. H. Longman took them. He would be able to give you 

 a good deal of information. My Whips were— 

 E. Stafford Howard, 

 G. H. Longman, 

 G. Macan, 

 C. J. Cropper. 



The pack I had at Cambridge I brought home with me after 

 leaving, and I rather think George Longman also took his pack away. 



Yours truly, 

 (Signed) Henry C. Howard. 



This letter seems finally to dispose of Lord Ernest St. Maur's 

 question : — 



" Currey's pack consisted of about sixteen couple of IG in. beagles, 

 a good many being black and tan. I wonder if any of the old blood 

 remains in the present pack ? " 



Reminiscences of C. J. Cropper 



1872-3-4 



My two first years at Trinity, Harry Howard was Master, Stafford 

 Howard was a Whip, also George Longman who had hunted the Eton 



1 These are the names entered in the Beagle Book started by J. S. Carr-Ellison, 

 but the entry is in K. Walker's hand, and was probably coi)ied from this letter, and 

 is not therefore independent testimony. 



