230 The Life of Fred Archer 
the great jockey, the bearer of this and a personal friend of 
my own, I shall take it as a great favour. He has just lost his 
wife and is trying to seek forgetfulness in your bright land. 
" Remember me kindly to Mrs. Reiver, and believe me, 
" Yours sincerely, 
" C. Stirling Crawfurd Montrose." 
Before going to America, Archer dashed off to Cheltenham 
to see Mr. Charles Jessop, his solicitor, and said, " I want to 
make my will, and to have it got ready by about two in the 
afternoon. I am off to America." 
Mr. Jessop said he had only one letter to Fred in his posses- 
sion, written by an aristocratic acquaintance, who said : " I am 
afraid I can't pay you the £ioo I owe just yet." Mr. Jessop 
said that after Archer's death he had had a lot of letters like 
this from lords and others, and he kept them until he had made 
the writers pay back what they owed to the estate, and then 
he gave the letters back to those who had written them. But 
this one he happened to have kept, though he got back the 
£ioo. The writer went on to say : " Mind you don't flirt 
with the Duchess " (at some race-meeting Fred was going to). 
Fred Archer's will read as follows : 
" This is the last will and testament of me, Frederick James 
Archer, of Newmarket, in the county of Cambridge, gentleman. 
I appoint my friend, Robert Herbert Mills, and my brother- 
in-law, George Peddie Thomas Dawson, executors of this my 
will and trustees for the purposes hereinafter named. I 
direct that aU my debts, funeral and testamentary expenses 
may be paid as soon after my decease as conveniently may be. 
I give and bequeath the following legacies, free of legal duty, 
viz. : 
" To my daughter, Nellie Rose Archer, £20,000, in addition 
to any other benefits she may take either under my marriage 
settlement or this will. To the said Robert Herbert Mills, 
