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Dear Sir Francis Piggott,

Government House,

Hongkong, 13th.November, '08

In your official letter of November

6th you say that I have expressed an almost invincible aversion to a conversation with yourself,at which in a friendly and in- formal mayner you might have been able to put me in possession of facts which would convince me that a better understanding was nedessary and could easily be arrived at.

I have no aversion to such a conversa- tion, and I should indeed be most happy if it brought about the

results you anticipate. My view has been that where there

was some definite controversial point it was better to have it in writing, so that I could inform myself as to mtecedent con- ditions and precedents, or correspondence.

Many such points have formed the sub- ject of what has become in the aggregata a very voluminous cor- respondence. If you would desire to have the conversation

you refer to I will endeavour to arrange an early date.

Yours very truly,

(Sd) P.D.LUGARD.

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