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open air, with a view to, in some measure, divert his mind from his present painful position over which he seems to be brooding very much.
The Doctor was anxious that we should communicate to him any news we might receive, and I promised to do so.
Until the 18th I expect to be at Changte-fu, but will be home after that date. With kind regards to your Excellency, I am, &c.
Dear Dr. McClure,
Inclosure 4 in No. 1.
(Signed)
Sir J. Jordan to Dr. McClure.
W. McCLURE.
Peking, January 16, 1909. I WAS very glad to receive your letter of the 11th instant, and much interested in what you told me of his Excellency Yuan Kung Pao. His Excellency's enforced retirement has been a great disappointment to all of us who had come to regard him as the pioneer of progress in China, and I can well understand how much you and others who owed so much to him during the 1900 troubles regret the turn of recent events. My relations with him were always of a peculiarly friendly nature, and to me the loss is a personal as well as a public one. However, we can only trust that the day may not be far distant when his services will again be utilized by his country, which can ill-afford to dispense with statesmen of Yuan's calibre.
I shall be grateful if you will assure his Excellency of my unalterable esteem and friendship, and say that I look forward with confidence to his return to public life.
I am, &c.
(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.
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