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thanks to Your Lordship form
authorizing
me
by your telegram
of the 5th instant to take now- " the leave previously granted by
your despatch of the 9th Fine
ultimo.
2
In that despatch
Your Lordship most Kindly
expressed your regret that the
state of my to the consequences of
health, (owing partly
a severe
horse accident), as shown by
the Medical Certificate transmitted
on the 20th April ultimo, rendered
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it desirable that I should visit Japan, and signified approval
of my taking two months vacation leave from about the 15th August.
3.
I did not avail.
myself of Your Lordship's Kindness last month, as I was desirous to see what turn the protracted
complications between France and Chind would take. Indeed I hoped that it would not breome imperative for
me to
leave my post at all at present.
But