My dear Miss Addams:
The Trustees of Lingnan University are endeavoring to fund their assets in order to take advantage of a conditional gift from Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. He is willing to contribute the last $579,000 of a $2,500,000 development fund, providing a sufficient number of bona fide subscriptions are secured by the end of this year.
The money that the Chinese raised during the past year for the School of Agriculture will count. The interest on a recent appropriation of $1,000,000 for endowment from the Trustees of the Hall Estate may also be included. This means that we shall have to secure from other sources subscriptions amounting approximately to $1,000,000.
We are counting on those who have personally visited Canton to assist us in this special effort to finance an institution that means so much to South China at the present time. It would be a great calamity if this work should have to be curtailed in any way.
It will be entirely satisfactory to us to have you put your contribution in the form of a subscription over a period of five years for it can then be credited in connection with Mr. Rockefeller's conditional offer.
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