Should my carnest supplication meet with a successful issue I humbly beg to assure Your Lordship, that my utmost endeavour on all occasions will be to prove myself meritorious Your Lordship's kind favor.
I have the honor to be of My Lord our most obedient and humble Servant, Your Nemy Gunthorpe (Chief Clerk to the Harbor Master).
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It is probably 6 months leave additional to an furlough who will eventually be granted, but I think he may have been offered some annex craft. Leave Men Ellist. The six months extension of leave I pressured be protected, 78 Montler being the limit in Appointments in Hong Kong Story? With regard Leyland I reserve we can only...
I am directed by Lieut. Govr. E. B. Lytton to acknowledge your Letter of the 13th instant and to state that under the circumstances therein represented he will grant you leave of absence from Hong Kong for six months from the 11th of March 1859. With respect to your application for an appointment...