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Fo651 receipt of your Letter 425
72 Murgarch Strate, Cavendish Square W.
26 Oct. 1881. C.O. 18765 RECP REGO 27 OCT 81
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of yesterday's date and to convey my thanks to the Secretary of State for having selected me for the office of Chief Justice of Hongkong.
Kindly convey my acknowledgements to my constituents remaining under my care in Europe until the beginning of next year and to state that I am resuming my post at Gibraltar the present month.
Your obedient Servant, George Phillipps
I. Bramston Esqr