Lady Victoria Campbell

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She enlisted the interest of the shooting tenants,
and Lord Elphinstone enclosed her a letter from the
Postmaster-General with the comment : " I am
afraid we can give up all hope of ever seeing the
' Fingal ' running into Gott Bay." The letter is
endorsed by Lady Victoria as " Last try."
General Post Office, London. Jan., 1905.
In the letter which you and Mr. Cobbold sent
to me on the 16th ultimo, reference is made to
the landing of mails at Tiree. In this connection
I may inform you that I have already considered
the question of arranging for the mail-steamer
to call at Gott Bay on occasions when, owing to
stress of weather, a landing cannot be effected at
Scarinish. It appears, however, that no proper
provision is made for landing at Gott Bay ; no
ferry-boat is kept in the Bay, and there is not even
a boat-slip.
Moreover, the " Fingal " has a small crew, and
if a boat were lowered to land passengers and
mails at Gott Bay, the crew left on the steamer
would not be sufficient to work her.
The captain of the " Fingal " does not think it
safe to attempt to effect a landing at Gott Bay,
when the weather is too bad to admit of a call made
at Scarinish, and I do not consider it advisable
to interfere with his discretion in the matter.
Two years later an understanding and more sym-
pathetic Post Office surveyor writes to her from
Edinburgh : — ■