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HONGKONG HOTEL, Mr 3. Aitken Capt. R. Inne Mr and Mrs Ander Mr N. de Journal

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It would be difficult at any time to. get hold of the Poems by Robert of the allied countries have efected Mr 7, H. Baring

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Louis Stevenson, Hitherto Unpub-marvels, some of which were dealt with Mr and Mrs H.A. A G. Quidan- lished issued privately by the the exceedingly interesting Rede istare. Mrs E Hibliophile Society of Boston. U.S.A. delivered at Cambridge by Richard Dr Nevills Bradley Ar A. Linbird MARSEILLES AND LONDON, But just now, with war conditioner, Director of the Nations! Capt & Mrs Branch Mr. S. Longfield

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Maslin Mr H. E services of Inestimable value to the coun. MED. F. Capplamankira T.R.

Mr J. W. Mayhew as we Scots say, have of the poetis.

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inad.

National Physical Laboratory not been in sistence we said have had to invent

Import

McInnes

S. Nicolson

MA

Mrs. F.

E AE Nowian Davis * Cliakum-chaak in the man they ride.

it ad hoc and great as our powers of Mr D. E. Donnelly M. Pierce

Me J. G. Poat Down by the brass and the grey sea-improvisation are admitted to be the W. T. Watts. Mr G. Y. Read Mr W. A. Dowlay Mr B. H. Bay handicap would have been extremely

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Capt. H Roop

EL. M M. Shortem every respect had to be supplied inr J. F. Gale

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Round and up by the Four-Tree Deri Weary fat the red-one ment As I wrote you some time ago

Capt. A. F. Gihnour Mr A. W. R. Spier Mr F. Taylor Gause Mrs M. Slade

Mr A. G. Gordon Miss A. Square Mr F.

F. Goulbourn Mr H. A. Stringer

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Mr C. Tilsley Todt

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we here are by no means sure that interchangeability of their products, bat Mr and Mrs WA Capt. G.. Steversion meant the poems to be it on sppeared that, as in inorals, pro- publishest, and we doubt whether as fession and practice were frequently some a whole they, will add to his literary wear widely divorced. The only consola. reputation. The earlier verses are [tion is that, as we learn from the Ameri. obviously immature, as in these lines ao technical journals, masters were little

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of un amatory jingle written appar- bettie in the United States, many Erm ently to or at-somebody in Edin-there, as here, proving incapable; withwes burgh,

special instruction, of turning out work within the limits of variation denunded. No-doubt-in-womack these were fard

- My first gift, my last to you,

_delicate_this, feriefe of songs—“ The only wealth. I have, Just wi Ehey are, to yon." Stevenson was on the Continent in 1972, and he seems then to have dropped into, the bit of writing verse to his friends."

the epistle contains sour aglinirable lines,-"

Away with 'foneral music-set “ The pipe to powertal tips- The man of life's for him that drinks. And not for hin flat, sips."

**This glony northern day

Or this yet gloomier night, Das moved a something bigh

En my cold heart; and I That do not often przy Would pray to-night."-

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as absurdly small values considering the charseter of the work ani materials. tolerances 18 few mils only bring specified in cases where diferences of 1.200. would not have affected the imity of the product. Admittedly there were a considerable number of ench" déviations from commmm-Heur bodied in the spiseifications isstand, but, questionably,

·B-StitleT—Amount of work, had to ho dane, and done at short notice, in which but very small folerances were missible, and to attain this end on

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L and Mrs II. M. Dr and Mrs D.

Cameron Macaulay "Whyte RA.M.O.

Col. Young

Back in Edinburgh,to Stevenson as to Sir Walter Scott mine own

romantic town, "

‚"---@-"find hĩm emon- | nupufacturing busis, gangaa had to be

supplied ny a stupendous wale, ing to himself,-

Sir Richard Glazebrook stuted in his lecture that sqre 400,000 gaus hud heeg

Mr Littaye tested at Tedlington during the last 38 or For some abajure reason tha country of Whitworth hisd

con to ely for sneh articles simst sxclusively en foreign sources, and when the call cuma for the manufacture to be resumed the The loved next to Scotland. He met results were at first lamentable, rejections there, athong other interesting being very numerous. Now, Sir Richard friends, two Russian ladies, "who stater, 80 per cent. pass as a matter of cpened their cultivated minds, and interry hearts to him, and his thunks Wan a perm in Scots with the

verse,

Again he is on the Continent, this time in the South of France, which

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courte, and some makers get practically all their gauges - (hrough, The rato at which these tools are now being received and examined is 10,000 a week, and a description of the methods used in the testing of this huge quantity would be of great technical interest, but presura ably nothing will be published on this head till the end of the wur. As for screw "And the first lines of a poem writ-ganges, not a few engineers were inclined

Kindly, by then they gurt me sit.“, Au blythe was to hide a bit. Light is one hame fireside lit

My life for me.

Ower early maun rise aa' quit

This happy leo."

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ten shortly after his arrival at Santo believe that the limits of accuracy Francisco run-

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