BAN
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I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of May 27th 1881 and to request that
you will express to Lord Kimberley my grateful thanks for the
leave on full pay which he has been pleased to
grant to me, and also for his kindness in holding me eligible for some other appointment in the Colonial Service.
I beg leave to assure his Lordship that although I cannot hold myself blameless, the circumstances under
which I was brought to act as
I did, were such that I trust his Lordship will pardon me for thinking
that no gentleman with a becoming sense of honor and self respect
could have remained passive; but whatever and wherever
the blame may lie,
I beg to assure his Lordship the event has
in every way been most distressing to me, and that in case
his Lordship should be pleased some time to appoint me to some
other post to which my qualifications
are adapted, which
may speedily happen, the duties of the office shall be discharged by me with the strictest fidelity and regard to the public service.
June 1
1881
I have the honor to be,
Your most obedient Servant,
E. H. Meade
Assistant Under Secretary
for the Colonies
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Ihr Homthe Actert was originally "Ihr Homthe Actert H. Meade ECEIVE" - corrected to "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt"
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Initials "Hey And Tibbous Ealing" at the end were kept as is.
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