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Frank Henry hunting diaries
Manuscripts
This collection contains 18 Seasonal Diaries, bound into two volumes: 1877, October-1887, April (HM 82610(1)), and 1887, November-1898, October (HM 82610(2)). The diaries are made up of Spiers and Son's printed Hunting Registers and record Hunt meets with the Beaufort Hunt and others; dated manuscript entries in ink include: date, pack, fixture, hack ridden to meet, hunter ridden, coverts drawn, foxes found, weather and usually a few lines of narrative summary of the day's events. HM 82610(1) also has one page of autograph notes laid in and various newspaper clippings pasted onto pages; HM 82610(2) contains an autograph letter by the 9th Duke of Beaufort (Mar. 31, 1890) pasted in, as well as various newspaper clippings.
mssHM 82610 (1-3)