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me pleasure to cigpress my great satisfadion with his progress.
I had sent him livo
Holifications prom
an old Government Gazette in Chinese to be renderto
into English. This was done quite correctly.
I had seur fum also a few English sentences to be translated into Chinese; in this he was nor
successful, though his writing of the
charaders was
Joer.
fluent commane
language
is morco
It is in a
of the spokew
that Mr. Smith's advancement
most conspicuous. He talks readily and naturally, and I have no doubt avill läke rank, before long,
as one
of the ablest foreign speakers
of the advised him to give a portion of
Caulow dialeer. I have
every day to composition in the
written character, as I consicu it
as highly desirable and insportaut that he and his colleagues should be able to interpret what is written as well as what is spokew, and in to communicate freely
every way
with the Chinese.
I have, yo,
(sister) James Ligge (True Copy)
Colonial Secretary