Inclosure 3
3 in Drop: 1.200 $1883.
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letter No = 1320 to an
oversight in
my
letter
No55 of the 13th Instant wherein I left out inadvertently the negative "not"; the mistake therefore is not in the copy but in the original, the context clearly pointing out the omission and that "did I not emanate" was the only interpretation that could possibly be attached to the sentence adverted to and I should have
esteemed it a
courtesy
have
letter 2:55
my
been returned with the passage queried when I should have had the opportunity
of rectifying
the omission.
I have be:
(Signer) Frank Forth.
Sir,
Treasury, Hongkong
12th November, 1863.
With reference further to my
letter
now to
of the 30th of October last I have ask that you will do me the honor to peruse the further correspondence which has passed between
my
Department and that of the Acting Colonial Secretary at Hongkong after I had requested the Acting Governor to do me the favor to transmit to yourself as Under-Secretary for
the Colonial Department the letter cited above
and its enclosures.
From the Acting Colonial Secretary's
Sir Frederick Rogers, Bart. Under-Secretary
Colonial Office
letter
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