Author:
ROBERTSON Henry
Title:
Deer Stalking Manuscript A Manuscript Deer Stalking Record Book "Deer Stalking at the Barracks Rannock 1878 Perthshire."
Price:
£550.00
Year:
1888
Summary:
8vo 15cm x 11cm vellum wallet style binding with flap and pocket. Unpaginated, 112 pages with 20 pages added at end some with printed The Barracks Kinloch Rannoch. Although the first page is dated 1878 the record book runs through to 1888 no record for 1889 then to 1891. Neatly written in ink in a legible hand filling the pages on both sides. Gives the year and date, reads very much as a chatty diary in many cases noting companions, the place, the stalk, the shot, size of deer etc. Oct 4 (1878) "After they got up we stalked up the burn got in on one Stag, hind both sides of us one looking at us and blowing as I crawled last 5yds fired at Stag 100yds he stumbled forward but went on. Donald said Stag gone to but I counted the herd going over the top ours missing. After some little time found the Stag dead in a peat bog quite concealed only 40yds from where I shot him through the heart very large body 18 stone 8pts but fine spread & black had it stuffed.". The name H Robertson appears on front paste down. To the upper cover of the binding in ink "Deer Stalking from Bks Rannock H Robertson Esq" there is also some faint writing only Ipswich readable. The binding some surface marking contents and binding tight. Rannoch Barracks was a military barrack constructed in 1746 at Bridge of Gaur, at the western end of Loch Rannoch.. It was altered by Sir Robert Menzies between 1798 and 1803 to serve as a shooting lodge when 2 asymmetrical wings with splayed ends were added. It remains and is part of a sporting estate. As to Henry Robertson, a recent loose note with the diary notes Henry Robertson was the Squire of Washingley Hall, Huntingdonshire. The Hall itself was demolished in the 1950's though the gate posts still remain today as the entrance to Washingley Hall Farm. An early and detailed stalking record of the area.
Ref:
20646