Longridge Towers,
Berwick on Tweed,
495
27th February 1901.
Dear Dr Koch,
I regret to hear from your letter that
Trinidad is likely to lose your valuable services and
that you are anxious to be appointed elsewhere.
Were I still Governor of that delightful Islan
I would I think make an effort to dissuade you from
seeking in unknown regions the success which is within
your grasp in your own country.
I do not think that to be Assistant Surgeon
and the senior of that class after only 12 years' ser-
vice is a bad record of promotion in a young doctor like
yourself, and I would almost like to suggest that chi
va lento va sano and especially that chi va sano va
But ambition reasons differently and I know
lontano.
you to be ambitious.
If excellent studies, recognised talent and
a very meritorious career justify ambition I can cer-
tainly bear witness to your real merits, but though it
is not for me to discourage your desire for a change
I would not forgive myself for not truly expressing my
feelings in your regard.
You may make the use you like of this letter.
Truly yours,
(Sd.) HUBERT E.H.JERNINGHAM.