As nearly five months have now elapsed and no reply has been received, it has occurred to me that the address to which I sent the letter (Portac Villa, Canford Bridge, Kent, I may not have found Mr. E. D. Berkeley. As I am informed that he is on the Civil Service / I believe in the Department of the Secretary of State for Scotland) I should be greatly obliged if the enclosed copy of my letter can be forwarded to Mr. E. D. Berkeley through the Colonial Office.
M. J. F. Berkeley is, I understand, well connected, his father being the Vicar of St Cleer, Cornwall. I cannot suppose that his family would allow Mr Mudie to be a loser by his generous action. Mr Mudie's only motive in advancing the money was to save a young Englishman from the disgrace and suffering attendant on incarceration in the Hongkong Gaol.
I have &c.
W. S. Brown.
Surveyor General.
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