SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. Autograph manuscript of a fox-hunting diary kept from 20 September to 24 November 1916 during hunting in country around Peterborough and Ringmer. 5 pages, square 8vo, in ink on light tan and light gray letterheads with imprinted addresses. The opening (and a typical) entry: "Arrived Wed. Sept. 20th. 1916. Th. Sept. 21. Met at Orton Waterville. 6.30. A fine morning after slight frost. Found in the Long Walk cover & hunted one over the road & railway, through the Osiers & along the railway bridge; then back by the river & lost him beyond...but picked one up in some seeds when going back to the Osiers...scent fair. Home 11.30. Rode Westmorland..." Sasson's experiences as a huntsman were utilized for his autobiorgaphical novel, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , published in 1928.
SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. Autograph manuscript of a fox-hunting diary kept from 20 September to 24 November 1916 during hunting in country around Peterborough and Ringmer. 5 pages, square 8vo, in ink on light tan and light gray letterheads with imprinted addresses. The opening (and a typical) entry: "Arrived Wed. Sept. 20th. 1916. Th. Sept. 21. Met at Orton Waterville. 6.30. A fine morning after slight frost. Found in the Long Walk cover & hunted one over the road & railway, through the Osiers & along the railway bridge; then back by the river & lost him beyond...but picked one up in some seeds when going back to the Osiers...scent fair. Home 11.30. Rode Westmorland..." Sasson's experiences as a huntsman were utilized for his autobiorgaphical novel, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , published in 1928.
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