Dear Sir,
You
Enclosure 1.
C. O.
550
1382
Basel Mission House,
Hongkong, 27th April 1857
I beg to inform
that I intend to make several alterations in connection
with our school-house in High street with a view to enlarge and improve it and to conduct therein our public girls-school
hitherto conducted in smaller
rooms
belonging to our mission, which cannot any longer be used for that purpose, and I further beg to ask the Government
for
a
grant of three hundred dollars for this enlargement and improvement of the said
The Rev. Dr. E.J. Eitel,
Inspector of Schools,
public