The first great change regarded the locality of the Melanesian school
in New Zealand. Repeated experience had shown that St. John's
College was too bleak for creatures used to basking under a vertical
sun, and it had been decided to remove to the sheltered landing-place
at Kohimarama, where buildings for the purpose had been commenced so
as to be habitable in time for the freight of 1859.

It should be explained, that the current expenses of the Mission had
been defrayed by the Eton and Sydney associations, with chance help
from persons privately interested, together with a grant of £200, and
afterwards £300 per annum from the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel. The extra expense of this foundation was opportunely met by
a discovery on the part of Sir John Patteson, that his eldest son,
living upon the Merton Fellowship, had cost him £200 a year less than
his younger son, and therefore that, in his opinion, £800 was due to
Coleridge. Moreover, the earlier voyages, and, in especial the
characters of Siapo and Umao, had been so suggestive of incidents
fabricated in the 'Daisy Chain,' that the proceeds of the book were
felt to be the due of the Mission and at this time these had grown to
such an amount as to make up the sum needful for erecting such
buildings as were immediately requisite for the intended College.

These are described in the ensuing letter, which I give entire,
because the form of acknowledgment is the only style suitable to
what, however lightly acquired, was meant as an offering, even though
it cost the giver all too little:


'Kohimarama: Dec. 21, 1859.