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No doubt,
Excuse my confining myself strictly to placing the papers as naked fact and to answering any question you may put to me.
To this case is an official one and I am anxious to keep strictly within the official line in a matter affecting the social position of a former friend of mine.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) Col. Citel
Private Secretary
I shall be at Government House every day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
I hereby certify the above to be a true copy of the original letter produced to me this ... day of December 1881.
(Signed)
Notary Public