LOWTHER, 



Penrith, 

 5th November, 1917. 



Dear Mr. Calthrop, 



I have read your book, which I now 

 return, and deeply regret that I have taken so 

 long to do it, but I have been so very busy. 

 I have now read every word of it, and entirely 

 agree -with practically all that you have said. 

 Also I entirely agree with your views. 



As regards what I might term " instantaneous 

 breaking " : to anybody who reaUy under- 

 stands animals, like yourself, it is perfectly 

 obvious and I quite agree with all you say. 

 I knew Sample and Galvayne and all those 

 breaking men very well. Sample was really 

 by far the best of them ; Galvayne was merely 

 an imitation, and a moderate one, of Sample. 



I hope that you will succeed with your 

 publication, for it is certainly deserving of 

 every success, as it is full of merit, and the 

 principles and everything on which you found 

 your system is, in my humble and probably 

 valueless opinion, perfectly right. 



I am perfectly certain that no real cure 

 can be made with a savage animal, except of a 

 temporary character, in which the owner or 

 user of the horse has not made and given the 



