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I have the honour to acknowledge Your Excellency's letter of 30th. March on the subject of the Registry,

and I do so with the greatest pleasure, as it fulfils the

promise of the dawn of a month or so ago when Your Excellency's

views came to coincide with mine on the question of changes in

the personnel. I am too well versed in administrative affairs

not to be aware that it is impossible to achieve the most desirable thing in such a matter without patience and much waiting;

and I could not desire any more explicit expression of Your

Excellency's views than your letter under reply contains. My

duty is to lay before Your Excellency, with as much insistence

as possible, what I conceive to be necessary; and it will

always be a pleasure to do so when I know that any suggestions

I may make will be received in the spirit which this letter

gives expression to. I am indeed so hopeful of the future that

I was tempted to cancel the letter written yesterday. But I

think it better to send it, in order that Your Excellency should

realise, as I do not think you do, how deeply I feel the way

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