CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12] — Page 586

582

of

Revt Dr Campbell recommending Mr Stewart

Mr. Stewart paid

a

visit to

my

and afforded

house in Dorsetshire,

me

an

opportunity

of confirming the highly favourete cestimate entertained by D Campbell

respecting

him!

I took the precaution also

of requesting that

a medical

- opinion might be given by

to Mot

competent persons as Stewart's physical suitableness for the climate of China.

A letter from his farmer medical attendant Polt, de Pulson, Esque M. D.

was addressed'

to J. E.T. Parratt Esque Retired Inspector of Hospitals in the Royal Artillery, who has had considerable personal experience

at Hongkong; the result of which was that Do Parratt wrote the opinion that Mr Stewant

Me

"physically fit for the~

" appointment," and that there

nothing in his case

" militating against the hope of " his bearing the climate of

"China .

720co

I beg leave therefore

formally to recomment Mr. Frederick Stewart for

appointment to the situation