to winter in the South
besides other ailments which
they render it desirable for
am ordered
to regain my old strength - as well as to get into a proper state of diet - te, I trust with great care werk fast get to enjoy it horse-exercise but am too
I am
There I can enjoy bracing air has invited me down here
Country
Just before leaving
+perfect quiet.
Town
intimated to me that his continued ill health, has already
leave had expired and being that he, (Johnson & my great friend, and & Gather I law Johnson's brother in law)
receipt of
advice from well during Government his wish for the
London, to
the few days
air
old friend
spent in
Appointmural in case pray. resignation,
The Night Houble
2643
The Earl
f Derby
7. C.
17645
RECP InEGE 15 OCT 83,
702
letter to
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies
My Lord
29 Porchester Square W.
13 Oct 1883.
I have the honor to place in Your Lordship's hands my resignation of the offices of Crown Solicitor and Queen's Counsel for the Colony of Hongkong held by me for nearly thirteen years -
It is with much regret that I feel bound to take this step, but since I last had the honor to address Your Lordship I have been suffering from further and severe illness, and I am advised that a return to Hongkong during the next two years would probably be with very serious risk to health - Under these Circumstances therefore I think it only right that I should at once, reluctantly, adopt this course. Regarding the future I venture to add that I understand Mr. Alfred B. Johnson, now acting Crown Solicitor in Hongkong, is a candidate for the appointment in the event of my failing health obliging me to resign.
Mr. Johnson is a gentleman of high tone and one of the ablest Solicitors I have known in the Colony