Letter from Arthur Vassall to William B Hardy Tells Hardy that 'The Times' is featuring Hardy's note about ripe chestnuts -- the local village has a competition for the school producing the most chestnuts, and his neighbour has had her trees 'fairly bombarded' -- this has been partly resolved by the issuing of armbands, so only parties of schoolchildren under a leader with such a band have the right to go onto private grounds to collect -- suggests that [Sir Frederic] Nathan or the Board of Education might adopt this as a nationwide strategy. 14 September 1917