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Tb6c35. How Howe
Beckenham Rectory, Kent
July 28th 1847
JULY 30 1849
My Lord,
I beg leave to submit to Your Lordship's notice the plan for raising a Chinese college at Hong Kong, the details of which are explained in the accompanying printed Prospectus (document N:1).
For raising the necessary buildings and commencing the Institution, the sum required is estimated at £5000; towards which from public & private sources I have a prospect of obtaining about £3500. For the remaining £1500 I am dependent on the uncertain results of my application to various individuals during my brief stay in England prior to embarkation for China.
Pecuniary support needed to meet the future expenditure for tutors, English & Chinese, and the maintenance of students - is an undertaking which I find it very difficult to accomplish with any prospect of permanency.
A clergy-man, a graduate in full orders, is about to accompany me as one of the tutors; and the Right Honourable Earl Grey has sanctioned my appointment as a junior Rector will be