CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904 — Page 31

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The above suggestions seem fairly practical & no particular objections in principle. The amendments to them require some consideration & enable them to be effected. I nearly wrote a lengthy letter but I cannot close it without a few personal words. Just be brave & be kind.

Sir Henry Blake says I am deficient in energy. If by that he means that I am ill, I indignantly deny it. I have always had my hands pretty full during the last 50 months before my departure. The press of work was so great that I have never known it before & my energies were stretched almost to breaking point. Several matters cropped up one after another, one of which occupied my whole time & attention for a week. I had to get up at 5 or 6 to prepare for the police court prosecutions.

For months, I hardly ever got any recreation of any kind except on Sundays, and even then I frequently had to go to my office to write reports & minutes requiring concentrated thought which I had no chance to give them during the constant interruptions of the ordinary day's work. I saw practically nothing of my colleagues and my life was too tired to enjoy our evening invitations because I was too exhausted to enjoy them & wanted rest. In my work, I could not have stood the strain longer without a holiday.

In the days when I had leisure, I devoted much of it not to my own pleasure but in improving my efficiency for the sake of the force. I studied Hindustani & extended my knowledge...

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The above suggestions seem fairly practical & no particular objections in principle. The amendments to them require some consideration & enable them to be effected. I nearly wrote a lengthy letter but I cannot close it without a few personal words. Just be brave & be kind. Sir Henry Blake says I am deficient in energy. If by that he means that I am ill, I indignantly deny it. I have always had my hands pretty full during the last 50 months before my departure. The press of work was so great that I have never known it before & my energies were stretched almost to breaking point. Several matters cropped up one after another, one of which occupied my whole time & attention for a week. I had to get up at 5 or 6 to prepare for the police court prosecutions. For months, I hardly ever got any recreation of any kind except on Sundays, and even then I frequently had to go to my office to write reports & minutes requiring concentrated thought which I had no chance to give them during the constant interruptions of the ordinary day's work. I saw practically nothing of my colleagues and my life was too tired to enjoy our evening invitations because I was too exhausted to enjoy them & wanted rest. In my work, I could not have stood the strain longer without a holiday. In the days when I had leisure, I devoted much of it not to my own pleasure but in improving my efficiency for the sake of the force. I studied Hindustani & extended my knowledge...
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Ine

The above suggestions seem.

fxcily practical & no particular objectins in principle. The

to them laur

Z

require mome

& enable

effectel

I nesapren

Amendment

& the

them

letter has reached

qual length I fear lut I connet close it without a few permal works. Juil

Invever enterrous & be buit.

Sir Henry Blake

am

says

35-

736

deficient in energy. If

by that he means that I

am ille

ille I indignantly

represents the change. have alway. hot mi hands pretty full during the

Cast 50 b

months before my departure. the pren of wit was

truck so

I have

never

before known it- & my energies were

stretched

almat to breaking point-

Several

Matttra

the top

lery

troublomme.

cropped us on of each other

one of which occupied my whole time.

For

& attention

a week & I hot some

37

hevery prosecutinis

Get up t

Embuil

28

the

police court. For metho I hardly ever got hnu's recreation of any kind except

and even

frequently

hot t

Sundays

*

до

my office to write reports & minutes se requiring

quit.

the

Concentrated thought

which I hot no

give them

strui

Chanu of

in the constant

& interuptions of

the ordinary day's work. I saw practically nothing of chiemen and my life. My hot to decline

my

of our

mol

tired

our Evening invitations because I wer

was too

to enjoy their &

wanted & In my

my exerxes fn,

work. I could not ha

stood the strains

longer custoul a In the days

Inne

much

holiday.

when I hat

Leime I deistet

mool of it not to my oun pleomnes lub in improving my efficiency for

Taunus jobs. my

unk

X

the good of the force. I studied Hindustani

extended my

숨어

knowledge

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