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I beg to bring to your Honour's notice I am willing 

 to serve under your Honour and would have accepted 

 the boon offered to me favoured by your Honour, 

 " if my family " [that is, wife] " who had just now 

 delivered up a child, were not sick," etc., etc. 



From my butler, bringing up my heavy kit by sea on 

 my transfer from Ratnagiri to North of Bombay. 



" Mv MASTER, 



<c I beg to inform that I have just reached to 

 Bombay from Ratnagiri from where I have sailed 

 to a [native boat] on the 29th last, but owing the 

 storm and heavy rains I was obliged to make different 

 ports : your furniture are on good terms, but two 

 Boxes unimportants are little wet," etc., etc. 



Petition for an appointment. 



". . . By your graciously extending this humane 

 bounty towards a fallen, crushed and miserable young 

 man, you will bestow on him a marked and sub- 

 stantial boon. Boon which will always be vivid on 

 the tablet of your insignificant servant's heart, and 

 will fail not out of gratitude to elicit constant and 

 unceasing prayers to the Divine majesty for your 

 and family's longevity and prosperity, until he is a 

 guest of this nether world," etc., etc. 



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