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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 some ...
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 some ...
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I was only a year in Kandy in the post of Office Assistant , for having arrived there
in August , 1907 , I left in August , 1908 , to take up my duties as Assistant
Government Agent , Hambantota , in the Southern Province . I had less than four
years ...
I was only a year in Kandy in the post of Office Assistant , for having arrived there
in August , 1907 , I left in August , 1908 , to take up my duties as Assistant
Government Agent , Hambantota , in the Southern Province . I had less than four
years ...
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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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