TNAG-1590-FCO40-2175-Appointment-of-Sir-David-Wilson-as-new-Governor-of-Hong-Kong-1987 — Page 130

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21st January 1987

Sir David Wilson, KCMG,

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morning.

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I was pleased to hear from your office this Jim P. and Arnold W. both wish to meet you. It so happens that Jim is travelling around the United States etc. endlessly in the next few weeks, hence our being unable to fix on any of the dates you offered until Wednesday 18th February.

We much look forward to seeing you then. eat at eccentric hours by normal business standards

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I hope 1.15 p.m. for 1.30 p.m. won't throw your gastric juices into disarray, nor your diary?

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Although a tragic death is a miserable reason for going to Hong Kong it is, nonetheless, wonderful that the U.K. has the benefit of you at the ready, so perfectly suited for such an assignment. I sense you must be rather thrilled by the opportunity and the challenge.

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