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Sir,
5299 vong Kong.
Patronage
16 lestlige Square East,
Belfart.
RECEIVED
MAY 31 1365
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26 May, 1865.
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my
a Nonlinations
write to solicit, in favou fourth son, Francis Knowles Porter,
Chinese Interpretership at Hong-Kong
be qualified for entering as
to a that he
may
Candidate at the approaching compe
inations.
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anthe
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a
The accompanying Testimonials recommendations, will, I hope, satisfy you.
that if he succeeds in obtaming de fitted to
which he is desirous, he is
becom
%
Many
a useful and respectable public servant.
more to the sane liven procureds: but as no
minne respectable than those which are
more
effect
It could easily have
signatures could be
are already
y writing
appended, I did not think it necessary to put
my friends to the trouble
theme.
It is proper to state explicitly that my
20, Jean the min
sons is below the
given
is the
to understand t
which, I am
Ch
fixed
for competitors. He is however, in his 20th which he will have completed on the 8th of next December; long before he could reach Hong Kong, supposing that he is allowed to
The Right Honourable
State
Eduard Cardwell MP
Seentury V
talonial
Colonial Office
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