C. O.
I beg to ask your leave to excerpt. If my letter to 109287/96 the lives of which was a complete reference to you and for your perusal.
Tendered as last week's and thanks for my charges hotel to passage fare. $8740.85 Australian having left London on the 27th instant.
I have asked for chartering for any delivery purchasing clothes, instruments, and books four of which would be rendered if I stayed in England. Also in Shanghai I have done likewise. Thanks for arranging affairs fully contracting to return well in hand.
It is due to fear I am now a few days behind the best. I post here at age 75. Unless I suffer from any physical disability.
Yours sincerely,
Joseph Chamberlain, H.P.
Secretary of State for the Colonies