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HUNTING DIARY -- Autograph manuscript diary kept by a huntsman in Nottinghamshire, 22 January 1818-18 March 1828. 8º,
135 pages, approximately 9,000 words in total, interleaved with pinkish blotting paper, contemporary red straight-grained morocco. Provenance: acquired at Parke-Bernet, 6 November 1950, lot 297 (noting the bookplate of Alfred B. Maclay, no longer evident).
A FASCINATING DECADE IN SPORT. The manuscript describes the outcomes of hunts made every few days during the hunting seasons. The author appears to have lived just north of Sherwood Forest, mentioning among the many locales of his hunts Blyth, Ollerton, Worksop, Newstead and Carlton-upon-Trent-- none of them far from Melton Mowbray. The writer mentions several times hunting with the Quorn and Foljamber Hounds. At the end of each entry he names the horse he rode; among the many names listed are Black Pepper, Harry, Dancer, Uppingham, Sampson, Woldsman, ‘H. Greave’s Rhone Horse,’ Silversmith, ‘A Bay Mare of Mackin’s,’ and ‘A black Horse of Mr Savile’s'.
The handwriting bears a striking similarity to that of John Mytton (see lot 135), and covers the period immediately after he became master of foxhounds. The terrain described, however, is inconsistent with his usual turf, which was the vast country extending from Halson into Staffordshire and including what was later the country of the Albrighton hunt. It is possible that this journal was distinguished from any others he may have kept by being an exclusive record of hunts made in Nottinghamshire, but evidence of that is inconclusive.
135 pages, approximately 9,000 words in total, interleaved with pinkish blotting paper, contemporary red straight-grained morocco. Provenance: acquired at Parke-Bernet, 6 November 1950, lot 297 (noting the bookplate of Alfred B. Maclay, no longer evident).
A FASCINATING DECADE IN SPORT. The manuscript describes the outcomes of hunts made every few days during the hunting seasons. The author appears to have lived just north of Sherwood Forest, mentioning among the many locales of his hunts Blyth, Ollerton, Worksop, Newstead and Carlton-upon-Trent-- none of them far from Melton Mowbray. The writer mentions several times hunting with the Quorn and Foljamber Hounds. At the end of each entry he names the horse he rode; among the many names listed are Black Pepper, Harry, Dancer, Uppingham, Sampson, Woldsman, ‘H. Greave’s Rhone Horse,’ Silversmith, ‘A Bay Mare of Mackin’s,’ and ‘A black Horse of Mr Savile’s'.
The handwriting bears a striking similarity to that of John Mytton (see lot 135), and covers the period immediately after he became master of foxhounds. The terrain described, however, is inconsistent with his usual turf, which was the vast country extending from Halson into Staffordshire and including what was later the country of the Albrighton hunt. It is possible that this journal was distinguished from any others he may have kept by being an exclusive record of hunts made in Nottinghamshire, but evidence of that is inconclusive.
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