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situation to keep myself,
literally, from starving

I again request you will
forgive my thus trespassing
upon your kindness and
beg to assure you that nothing
but my extreme distress
Should justify such a breach
of Etiquette

I remain

Your Very Obed't

[signed] S.J.C. Irving

Late Lt. 28th Reg't

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I regret that
I am unable to
hold out to him any
prospect of Employment
in the way he Solicits, His Ex'y
the Governor having made the
appointments of Subaltern
Officers to the Native Police on the
recommendation of the Commandant.

.................... 30[th]. ........ 51/1613 [?]

[in another hand]

Mr. Irving

10 [?] February

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