"for service and character to Foreign Office." Would be in my opinion "very useful, and zealous." Despatch goes by Messageries tomorrow.
I have now the honour to enclose for Your Lordship's information a statement of the Archdeacon's services in China during the last twenty years.
It only reached me from Canton last night, and I observe that the Archdeacon therein makes no special application, which is an accidental omission.
It should be remembered that in addition to those services the Archdeacon has been a traveller in North China and Mongolia and is likewise shown by most visitors to this part of the world to be the best informed guide to all the Antiquities and Historical monuments of Canton and its neighbourhood. He has given much time to the study of almost everything calculated to illustrate the social habits and peculiarities of the Chinese - whom he is much liked and respected - as he is invariably kind and considerate in his treatment of them.
Nevertheless, although the Archdeacon has been always indefatigable in discharge of his duty as a clergyman, and...
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my opinion "very useful, and zealous. Despatch : goes by Mepaguries tomorrow.
I have now the hover to
enclose for Your Lordship's information a statement of the Archdeacon's services
the last twenty
in China during
years.
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from
Cantone last night, and I observe
that the Archdeacon therein mastes
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of them.
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clergyman, and
duty,
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