HORSE-RACING

Three pages, 8vo, bifolium, small stain, otherwise good condition. He comments initially on a cutting (from a newspaper?). Singular to relate there is more truth in that cutting than you wd imagine. Before leaving London I had persuaded Miss Kellogg to come to Brighton for the race week: I got a letter from her to say [...].

Sizes vary from c.11 x 8cm to 19 x 15. The names of the stallions are given: Wildfire the Second, Cromwell, King Walter, 'Nag Stallion "Sedan", and Subduer; prices; the names and addresses of the owners; the achievements of the horse; directions; other information (eg. "Any mare missing to GOGGLES last season, will be served at Half-Price"). Of some interest typographically, the cards were printed by the following: Forth, Printer, Pocklington; Edmondson and Co., Skipton; C.L. Burdekin, Printer, York; F.T. Leckonby, 15 Coppergate, York; one omits printer's name.