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When I arrived in Jaffna , I was met by the Office Assistant , Wilfrid Thomas Southorn , who eventually became Sir W. T. Southorn , Governor of Gambia , and who married my sister Bella . In order that the reader may understand the ...
When I arrived in Jaffna , I was met by the Office Assistant , Wilfrid Thomas Southorn , who eventually became Sir W. T. Southorn , Governor of Gambia , and who married my sister Bella . In order that the reader may understand the ...
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Of these two the senior was the O.A. ( Office Assistant to the Government Agent ) who might have anything from one to six years ' service ; the junior was called a Cadet , and every civil servant when he first arrived was attached to ...
Of these two the senior was the O.A. ( Office Assistant to the Government Agent ) who might have anything from one to six years ' service ; the junior was called a Cadet , and every civil servant when he first arrived was attached to ...
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... the Superintendent of Police , the Assistant Superintendent of Police , and the District Judge . And perched up on one of the bastions was a bungalow for the Office Assistant . a a It was in this bungalow on the bastion that 50 GROWING.
... the Superintendent of Police , the Assistant Superintendent of Police , and the District Judge . And perched up on one of the bastions was a bungalow for the Office Assistant . a a It was in this bungalow on the bastion that 50 GROWING.
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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