A letter to Captain Richard Warner (1782-1863) of the North York Militia in a tone which suggests familiarity granting him shooting rights on his estate outside Portsmouth. The connection between the two men not further established.
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Transcription
Addressed to: Richard Warner Esqr
South Sea Common Camp Portsmouth
Postmarked: DRYMEN [undated]
Datelined: Buchanan Aug 31st
1806 [consistent with the year in which Palmerston’s younger half-brother
William (1788 - 1856) entered St John’s College, Cambridge]
My dear
Warner
I take
the first opportunity of answering your letter which reached me last night only
and hope that you and your friend will have anticipated my answer before you
receive it and begun your sport. Should you not be provided with Dogs, apply to
Bell the Gamekeeper who will furnish you with them and will probably be able to
shew you more birds than you could find without him.
William [his
younger half-brother] and I have not been doing a great deal having been unlucky
in our weather. We killed 16 [possibly 18] brace between us of which 10
brace owed their death to my gun. We only shot three days. Tomorrow we are
going to try these Moors which are upon the Banks of Loch Lomond and I hope to
have some good sport though Moorfowl is not by any means so abundant here as it
is further North. I shall be in Hampshire probably in October after I have
established William at St Johns [College, Cambridge; also attended by Henry]. He desires to be kindly remembered to you, believe me
Ever
yours Truly
Palmerston
I should
be obliged to you not to molest the Pheasants as I wish to preserve them.
Docketing
note in red ink: L Palmerston
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