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thanks to Your Lordship form

authorizing

me

by your telegram

of the 5th instant to take now- " the leave previously granted by

your despatch of the 9th Fine

ultimo.

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In that despatch

Your Lordship most Kindly

expressed your regret that the

state of my to the consequences of

health, (owing partly

a severe

horse accident), as shown by

the Medical Certificate transmitted

on the 20th April ultimo, rendered

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it desirable that I should visit Japan, and signified approval

of my taking two months vacation leave from about the 15th August.

3.

I did not avail.

myself of Your Lordship's Kindness last month, as I was desirous to see what turn the protracted

complications between France and Chind would take. Indeed I hoped that it would not breome imperative for

me to

leave my post at all at present.

But