CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3] — Page 191

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103

Forward & 111.0.

of

appointment & 70-

House Rent and

Slice & Lighting

Rates amounts to

111.

leaving for Maintenance of 26.

I presume it will be unnecessary for me to do more than merely state the fact of the utter impossibility of my being able to maintain myself and family on £26 a month, during the ten months that it will take to liquidate the balance of the loss, in a place in which the common necessaries of life are more expensive than they are probably in any other part of the world.

In justice therefore to those dependent upon me I must at once relinquish my appointment which ceases to afford them a sufficient means of support, however painful it is to me to be compelled to do so at a time when charges affecting my character prompted by malice...

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103 Forward & 111.0. of appointment & 70- House Rent and Slice & Lighting Rates amounts to 111. leaving for Maintenance of 26. I presume it will be unnecessary for me to do more than merely state the fact of the utter impossibility of my being able to maintain myself and family on £26 a month, during the ten months that it will take to liquidate the balance of the loss, in a place in which the common necessaries of life are more expensive than they are probably in any other part of the world. In justice therefore to those dependent upon me I must at once relinquish my appointment which ceases to afford them a sufficient means of support, however painful it is to me to be compelled to do so at a time when charges affecting my character prompted by malice...
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4.

103

Forward & 111.0.

of

گھر

appointment & 70-

House Rent and

g

Slice & Lighting

Rates amounts to

"

lib.

111.

leaving for Maintenance of 26.

I presum

resume it will

be unnecessary for .

do more than in

we to

merely

state the fact of the utter simpossibility of my being able to maintain myself and family 426 a month, during

or

the ten months that it

will take to liquidate the balance of the loss,

in

a

-place in which the common necessaries of life

are more

expensive than in any

they are probably e

her part of the world

other

In

justice therefore to those dependent upon

me I must at once.

relinquish

ало

appointment

afford

which ceases to

them

a

sufficient means

of support, however painful it is to me to be compelled to do so at

time when charges

a

affecting my

character

prompted by malic

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