CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11] — Page 502

Longridge Towers,

Berwick on Tweed,

495

27th February 1901.

Dear Dr Koch,

I regret to hear from your letter that

Trinidad is likely to lose your valuable services and

that you are anxious to be appointed elsewhere.

Were I still Governor of that delightful Islan

I would I think make an effort to dissuade you from

seeking in unknown regions the success which is within

your grasp in your own country.

I do not think that to be Assistant Surgeon

and the senior of that class after only 12 years' ser-

vice is a bad record of promotion in a young doctor like

yourself, and I would almost like to suggest that chi

va lento va sano and especially that chi va sano va

But ambition reasons differently and I know

lontano.

you to be ambitious.

If excellent studies, recognised talent and

a very meritorious career justify ambition I can cer-

tainly bear witness to your real merits, but though it

is not for me to discourage your desire for a change

I would not forgive myself for not truly expressing my

feelings in your regard.

You may make the use you like of this letter.

Truly yours,

(Sd.) HUBERT E.H.JERNINGHAM.