103
Forward & 111.0.
of
appointment & 70-
House Rent and
Slice & Lighting
Rates amounts to
111.
leaving for Maintenance of 26.
I presume it will be unnecessary for me to do more than merely state the fact of the utter impossibility of my being able to maintain myself and family on £26 a month, during the ten months that it will take to liquidate the balance of the loss, in a place in which the common necessaries of life are more expensive than they are probably in any other part of the world.
In justice therefore to those dependent upon me I must at once relinquish my appointment which ceases to afford them a sufficient means of support, however painful it is to me to be compelled to do so at a time when charges affecting my character prompted by malice...