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included "purses, Cold tantchoD, a bag of rupoec and even
four freehold cottages*"
41)
The audience obviously
composed the well-to-do aoction$ of cocicty. They coating
dissolved amid "lusty choera" and hyynn singing.
In spite of the generous rcnponco,, : toc3 'o action
was rognrded as something of a faux pan by Mackinnon who
wrote to Hutchinson a couple of days later, "1 beg to
axpreco the hope that fr" Stock's mistalten do not alter in
any way the promised contribution. "
acted without the knowledge of other
(2)
Stock probably
G, laä.
C* co
. tteo
cambers, since there does not aeon to have. been any intention
of extending the private appear.
But the subject was further publicinod by Biohop
Tuck or'a appoal, formulated on tad Decembor 1891, and which
appeared in some newnpapcr3 that fallowing day. This
coibincd a request for £15, O0O for the occupation fund, with
a plea for £25,000 for a steamer on L .
i: o Victoria,,
ateazer question van not divorced fron C. Ii. S, collaboration
{ý} p Ii tý 11 Qnýettc+. 31st October 1891"
(2) C#11.,. N IS* QA1, letter book, Mackinnon to Hutchinson
2nd November 1
(3} xbid fliohop Tucker's appeal 2nd December 1591.
(3)
The