Ford (Horace): A 3pp. autograph letter, signed, with one integral blank, dated Cheltenham 1st November 1859, to Mrs Pollock, saying he would have accepted her 'invitation to ... the Toxophilite Handicap -- but I have almost made up my mind never to shoot in these kind of matches again, it being all but impossible, according to my experience, for a good shot to win ...' (torn along central fold); included in a collection of archery ephemera in five albums also containining a subscriber's ticket to the first Grand National Archery Meeting at York, 1844, a wide selection of archery tickets and notices, trade cards, prints and photographs. (5)