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Dear Mr Burkhill, 
I duly received your letter of the 14th instant. 
It is <iuite true that I am getting up a subscrip-* 
-tion, to endeavour to obtain the services of the Brahman 1 ® Band 
for every Monday, to pla y for the benefit of the children of 
Singapore . It is not necessary that it should be in the Gardena* 
There are other places, ouch as Government Hill (which I have no 
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doubt Hia Exclllenoy will readily grant), and further, there are 
lots of private houses with suitable gardens* 
In the event of anything taking place in the 
Gardens, 1 should naturally first consult you; hut I don*t think 
you have any reason so far for supposing that I have in any way 
gone outside the Committee. But the first matter is for me to 
obtain the money, and this is not a very easy thing to de* Then 
I can enter into schemes. 
f Colonel White offerid the services of his Band 
once a week, provided I could get sufficient money to provide for 
transport, and this is really what I am collecting the money for# 
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I would have nothing to do with evening music in 
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the Gardens (if this is in your mind), which, after so many years 
of residence here, I never have, and cannot even now approve of. 
To my mind, they are the most uninteresting, over-crowded, and 
uncomfortable entertainments that I have ever been to. 
I certainly could not consent to put the funds I 
have raised into the hands of your Committee. I am doting solely 
on my own initiative. If we want the Band to play in the Gardens, 
necessarily we would have to safe your permission, but as I have 
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said before, wo are not tied up to the public Gardens. I always 
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