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Sassoon visited Milton and hunted with the Fitzwilliam on a number of occasions but he does not cover these visits in any great detail in his autobiographies. He stayed at Norman Loder's house 'near Peterborough' from the 20th to the 28th of September 1916, when they spent their time cub-hunting. He also stayed at Longthorpe, Peterborough, in 1919 but Loder put him on a rather wild horse and he was promptly thrown from it. This aggravated his sciatica and Sassoon spent the rest of the visit in bed. Then, in 1920, Loder left the Fitzwilliam Hunt, and moved back to become Master of the Atherstone Hunt.
What Sassoon does cover in great detail are two visits he made to Loder while he was Master at the Southdown Hunt in Sussex in 1913 and later while Master at the Atherstone Hunt in Warwickshire the same year.
Sassoon initially wrote three books, the first being 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man' in 1929 which was a slightly fictionalised autobiography in which all the real names were changed. He called himself George Sherston and in 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man' he describes his meetings with Norman Loder who is called 'Denis Milden' in the book. Chapter VII of this book, “Denis Milden as Master”, covers their first meeting and subsequent hunting with the Southdown (known as the ‘Ringwell Hunt’ in the book). Chapter VIII “Migration to the Midlands”, covers a long visit to the Atherstone Hunt, which in the book is called the 'Packlestone Hunt’. The stories of his experiences with Loder (Milden) remain true and are very entertaining.
Sasson later wrote three more books as his 'true' autobiography with all the real names in and one was called 'The Weald of Youth'. Chapter 10 contains more detail regarding the Atherstone visit (September 1913 to March 1914).
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