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office I always sent for the head clerk and said to him: "Every letter received in
this kachcheri after this week must be answered on the day of its receipt unless it
is waiting for an order from me or from the G.A." The answer of the head clerk was
...
office I always sent for the head clerk and said to him: "Every letter received in
this kachcheri after this week must be answered on the day of its receipt unless it
is waiting for an order from me or from the G.A." The answer of the head clerk was
...
Page 173
I think that my state of mind is honestly and accurately described in the following
letter which I wrote to Lytton about a month after I arrived in Hambantota: 2nd Oct.
, 1908 Hambantota Ceylon I have often been on the point of writing in the last ...
I think that my state of mind is honestly and accurately described in the following
letter which I wrote to Lytton about a month after I arrived in Hambantota: 2nd Oct.
, 1908 Hambantota Ceylon I have often been on the point of writing in the last ...
Page 248
I received from him the following letter: Downing Street, 16 February, 1912 Sir, I
am directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 14th February applying for an extension of your leave of absence from ...
I received from him the following letter: Downing Street, 16 February, 1912 Sir, I
am directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 14th February applying for an extension of your leave of absence from ...
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| Title | Growing, an autobiography of the years 1904-1911 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors, English Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Sri Lanka |
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