“Oh, you must write your own letter, you are quite old enough for that,” so off he went, wrote the letter and posted it.
Next morning when everybody was assembled at breakfast at the Deepdene before another day’s shoot, Lord Bill entered holding a letter in his hand, and after making some jokes about his own prowess with the gun and he feared his merits were not fully appreciated by his friends, said, “Listen to this, the opinion of one of my young friends,” and he read:
“Dear Lord William,
I have enjoyed to-day very much, I think you shot very well. I noticed you generally killed the birds with the second barrel.
Your friend,
Spencer Palmer.”
The most successful of Lord William’s horses in 1896 were Diakka, Peveril of the Peak Plate being his greatest triumph; Berzak the Newmarket First Spring Two Year Old Stakes, and in the Clearwell Stakes he ran a dead heat with Goletta, on whom odds were laid. Nonsuch won two small races.
LORD WILLIAM—IN OFFICIAL CAPACITY