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menced, and we are likely to come to a more 

 successful conclusion. 



''Mr. Kinnear has written thanking me for the 

 remarks I made about him, and the bosh that was 

 talked about the impropriety of his address being 

 issued before Wemyss' funeral. 



" I have just had a letter from the photographer 

 at Leven asking me to sit to him, as he had thirty- 

 four orders for my photo by Saturday's post, so I 

 am going to ride over with the boys. 



" I have sent Mr. Parker to attend the nomina- 

 tion and report what takes place. 



" Love to Mrs. Gray. 



" Your aff. 

 '*J. Anstruther Thomson." 



I then began again to turn my attention to the 

 duties of a M.F.H. There had been an idea of 

 reducing the number of hunting days in Fife and 

 selling half of the pack. The hounds were the 

 property of the committee — Lord Rosslyn, Mr. 

 Balfour, Mr. Haig, Mr. Oswald, Mr. Hay Pater- 

 son. There was a debt of ^500 on the hounds, 

 and the interest of that sum was the first payment 

 from the subscription. 



"At a meeting at Cupar, on 30th April, 1864, 

 Colonel Thomson moved that a joint-stock company 

 be formed for the purpose of purchasing the Fife 

 Hounds, and forming a county pack, in shares of ^25 

 each, and that a committee of gentlemen be requested 

 to act for obtaining shareholders and subscriptions 



