mr Jeffries called to day to Enquir the fate of his application. He had heard nothing from admiralty!
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ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH, Red 13 JUN 07
LONDON, S.E.
1907 June 12.
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2x Jeffries got yesterday afterofon by personal search at
the Admiralty
our letter
Wh
offering
him
the poor;
passed by Sir Rluanson
this morning the sails for (apetown
Tomorrow
We arranged that
arwal at Cape he should ascertam
Hongkong the brot
to get to
way
www-probably
by German steamer from Delagoa
Bay to Adm & thence By via Colombo -
WL
that hur shouls
ask the Asomi
to
authorize the masury Chest Officer Capetown
his passage
to advance him the cost
of
from Cape town to Hhong
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With reference to your letter of April 16, 11894/1907 asking me to recommend a suitable candidate for the post of First Assistant at the Hong Kong Observatory, I have to inform you that, after having made enquiries which have necessarily delayed my reply, I would recommend Mr C.W. Jeffries, one of the Staff at the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, as well qualified for the post.
Mr Jeffries was employed in the Magnetical and Meteorological Department of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich from April 1897 to November 1900 and I fund formed a high opinion of his ability, especially in photography which was an important part of his work.
He left the Royal Observatory for another post, and
in September 1902 was appointed by Sir David Gill a computer at the Royal Observatory at the Cape, being promoted to the permanent staff in December 1903, as the result of an examination by Professor Dyson, now Astronomer Royal for Sootland, who informs me that he was very pleased with his papers as showing that he had taken pains to understand the work he did.
Sir David Gill states that he has had charge of the Meteorological work since January 1903. He is a qualified observer both with the Transit Circle and Astrographic Equatorial and is an excellent computer. Sir David Gill feels sure that Mr Jeffries would perform all the duties Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office,
required
London, S.W.