Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911The author's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. |
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... letter to Lytton which recalls to me very vividly the atmosphere and savour of those early days in Jaffna : Į May 21 , 1905 A cataclysm is hourly expected here . Yesterday a headman came to the Kachcheri and reported that a hole had ...
... letter to Lytton which recalls to me very vividly the atmosphere and savour of those early days in Jaffna : Į May 21 , 1905 A cataclysm is hourly expected here . Yesterday a headman came to the Kachcheri and reported that a hole had ...
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... letter that one is writing to an intimate friend of one's youth , the ... Lytton in the early years of my time in Ceylon . I felt keenly the complete ... Lytton , all these feelings were so strong that they overwhelmed or eliminated all ...
... letter that one is writing to an intimate friend of one's youth , the ... Lytton in the early years of my time in Ceylon . I felt keenly the complete ... Lytton , all these feelings were so strong that they overwhelmed or eliminated all ...
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... letter to Lytton I wrote : " The work is consequently going on day and night and I have only been about 3 or 4 hours in bed out of the last 72. " I think that my recovery from typhoid had given me a new lease of life and , as I often ...
... letter to Lytton I wrote : " The work is consequently going on day and night and I have only been about 3 or 4 hours in bed out of the last 72. " I think that my recovery from typhoid had given me a new lease of life and , as I often ...
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