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Enclosure No 2
43333/16
The John Davis testimony in favor of A.R. Johnston
Hongkong, 24 May 1856
My dear Johnston,
If you cannot bring yourself to submit to the burden of an inactive life, the Government would be lucky to get the services of an experienced and tried servant such as you.
You know it is now 22 years since I appointed you Secretary to the Commission in China on the decease of Lord Napier.
Notwithstanding your comparative youth
I...