This makes an important difference because the substituted use of the definite article produces the impression that you had stigmatized my letter as generally or substantially inaccurate, whilst in reality the use of the word "some" you made, in replying to the request addressed to His Excellency in that letter to come forward and say that I had not acted under his instructions, was very significant. Instead of answering that challenge, or declaring the whole of my letter inaccurate, your statements merely said that there were "some inaccuracies" in my letter of the 17th December, and your letter contained no denial of the fact, now for the first time called into question by this letter of the Private Secretary, that I acted under the Governor's positive instructions speaking to Mr. Johnson and others.
9. But there is a further grave inaccuracy or blunder in the paragraph I refer to, as it alleges that I had desired my letter of the 17th December to be forwarded to the Earl of Kimberley. It was my paper of observations of 27th December 1881, which I in the concluding paragraph of those...