296 The Life of Fred Archer 
ride with one arm, as he was savaged by a horse called Muley 
Edris just before the Derby. 
" I have got a photo of Archer on Ormonde on the Two 
Thousand race day — a photograph a little over two feet wide, 
but a good photo of Archer and his seat. I have also got a 
small etching of Ormonde by Emil Adam which is very good. 
" Archer, I think, won three or four races at Chester in a 
day for my father, and in doing so, coming round one of the 
bends, caught an old lady with his leg, but it did not kill her. 
Archer and Bend Or always beat Robert the Devil on the 
Epsom course. I attended his funeral at Newmarket, and it 
just shows what he was, as all the old women all turned out 
at his funeral, and I beheve he did a lot of good to the poor 
of Newmarket." 
" 35» Jermyn Street, S.W., 
" United Services Club. PaU Mall, S.W. 
" November 11, 1886. 
" My Dear Mrs. Coleman, 
" I have refrained from writing before, not from any 
want of affection towards my dear lost friend, but because I 
did not want to trouble you at the first burst, in what I know 
must be your intense feelings of grief at the loss of your dearly 
beloved brother. 
" For myself, I can honestly say that I admired and loved 
him with a pure and sincere affection, and I have often thought 
since that he was well aware of this himself. And then, when 
I come to think, if my feelings are so acute at the loss of the 
poor dear boy, what must yours and the rest of his family be ? 
Of course, though, I feel myself too much prostrated to speak 
to [anyone about him. The shock to me has been an awful 
one. 
" And it might be some slight satisfaction for me to say 
that, even from those who did not know him as I had the 
