but my suggestion after was not heeded.
38. On 5th November, the day letter of my Private Secretary, I had sent in my resignation as His Excellency induced me, as above described, to write a letter to Mr. Johnson. When I had consented to write it, it was late in the evening. His Excellency dictated to me a brief outline of what I was to write. From that outline I drafted forthwith the letter which the Governor revised and a few sentences were re-written from his dictation. The Governor was in a hurry to return to the Peak, the sedan chairs were waiting, and the whole letter was drafted in great hurry. One sentence in that letter I regret having written, from the Governor's dictation, without clearly qualifying it as to the time to which it referred.
The sentence is, ... I was not told it was "this book or that, but simply "a book other things, " which contained, among ... "que proture decidedly indecent in " the Governor's opinion? What was in my mind when I consented to write this sentence was that it referred exclusively to the instructions I received within the last few days before the Governor's departure. But I overlooked in the hurry and under the pressure of the moment that this sentence might be read as if the Governor...
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