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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 3oth 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 



