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F? 15 MAY 09
41
Chambers,
Supreme Court, Hongkong,
1st. April, 1909.
Yone Leox all
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I have the honour to acknowledge Your Excellency's letter of 30th. March on the subject of the Registry,
and I do so with the greatest pleasure, as it fulfils the
promise of the dawn of a month or so ago when Your Excellency's
views came to coincide with mine on the question of changes in
the personnel. I am too well versed in administrative affairs
not to be aware that it is impossible to achieve the most desirable thing in such a matter without patience and much waiting;
and I could not desire any more explicit expression of Your
Excellency's views than your letter under reply contains. My
duty is to lay before Your Excellency, with as much insistence
as possible, what I conceive to be necessary; and it will
always be a pleasure to do so when I know that any suggestions
I may make will be received in the spirit which this letter
gives expression to. I am indeed so hopeful of the future that
I was tempted to cancel the letter written yesterday. But I
think it better to send it, in order that Your Excellency should
realise, as I do not think you do, how deeply I feel the way
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