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His Excellency the Governor to Briskl(?)
Copy.
His Excellency the Governor to Dr Eitel.
Government House
Hongkong
Copy
Private.
5 November 1881.
My dear Eitel
Await(?)
We will talk the matter
today when I go down. Better do nothing hastily.
Always Yours faithfully
(Signed) J. Pope Hennessy
To Dr. Eitel
Gov. Ex.
Government House Hongkong.
15 November 1881.
My dear Eitel.
The reasons you give in your letter of the 4th instant for desiring
to resign the post of Private Secretary are such that I cannot
any longer resist.
your
But in complying with your earnest wishes in this matter,
I must assure
you
how much I feel the loss of so thoroughly good and useful a Private Secretary.
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