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P.A. Crush & C.W. Kinder Digital Archive
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Contributor:
P.A. Crush
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Description:
Re offering Claude William Kinder employment as engineer at a "low" salary
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Re offering Claude William Kinder employment as engineer at a "low" salary
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Category-1:
Letter
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Addressee:
Claude William Kinder
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Claude William Kinder
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Sender:
Tong King Sing
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Tong King Sing
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Noted-1:
Dear Mr. Kinder
Thanks for your kind note of the 15th inst. - The retaining of the services
of a gentleman with a salary below what he is properly entitled to, does not
deserve much thanks. – I hope Mr. Molesworth will finish his [...] borehole
before the winter sets in and puts us in a position where something about the
railroad when the Viceroy's memorial is laid before the Throne. You were very
kind to promise to keep down expenses as low as possible indeed I find in
many cases the expenses of Foreigners in China have discouraged Chinese
officials to undertake any new enterprise and I am afraid that the Petroleum
works in Formosa will cease through the same complaint. I note your intention
to commence a survey directly the tools arrive and before you will get along
smoothly with the received tools you have at your disposal. The [rules] will
be printed and read as Mr. Burnett wishes.
Yours very truly
Tong King Sing
P.T.O.
By The way on the night of my arrival ~ and while talking with the new
Manager of the China Merchants my boy handed me the enclosed note which I at
once opened without looking at the address - but I instantly found it was not
for me and so put it back without reading its contents -for this [accounts
for proceedings] on my part, I must apologize
Yours very truly
Tong King Sing
Transcription by P. A. Crush
Thanks for your kind note of the 15th inst. - The retaining of the services
of a gentleman with a salary below what he is properly entitled to, does not
deserve much thanks. – I hope Mr. Molesworth will finish his [...] borehole
before the winter sets in and puts us in a position where something about the
railroad when the Viceroy's memorial is laid before the Throne. You were very
kind to promise to keep down expenses as low as possible indeed I find in
many cases the expenses of Foreigners in China have discouraged Chinese
officials to undertake any new enterprise and I am afraid that the Petroleum
works in Formosa will cease through the same complaint. I note your intention
to commence a survey directly the tools arrive and before you will get along
smoothly with the received tools you have at your disposal. The [rules] will
be printed and read as Mr. Burnett wishes.
Yours very truly
Tong King Sing
P.T.O.
By The way on the night of my arrival ~ and while talking with the new
Manager of the China Merchants my boy handed me the enclosed note which I at
once opened without looking at the address - but I instantly found it was not
for me and so put it back without reading its contents -for this [accounts
for proceedings] on my part, I must apologize
Yours very truly
Tong King Sing
Transcription by P. A. Crush
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Dear Mr. Kinder
Thanks for your kind note of the 15th inst. - The retaining of the services
of a gentleman with a salary below what he is properly entitled to, does not
deserve much thanks. – I hope Mr. Molesworth will finish his [...] borehole
before the winter sets in and puts us in a position where something about the
railroad when the Viceroy's memorial is laid before the Throne. You were very
kind to promise to keep down expenses as low as possible indeed I find in
many cases the expenses of Foreigners in China have discouraged Chinese
officials to undertake any new enterprise and I am afraid that the Petroleum
works in Formosa will cease through the same complaint. I note your intention
to commence a survey directly the tools arrive and before you will get along
smoothly with the received tools you have at your disposal. The [rules] will
be printed and read as Mr. Burnett wishes.
Yours very truly
Tong King Sing
P.T.O.
By The way on the night of my arrival ~ and while talking with the new
Manager of the China Merchants my boy handed me the enclosed note which I at
once opened without looking at the address - but I instantly found it was not
for me and so put it back without reading its contents -for this [accounts
for proceedings] on my part, I must apologize
Yours very truly
Tong King Sing
Transcription by P. A. Crush
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Date:
1878.10.21
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1878.10.21
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Copyright:
P.A.Crush & C.W.Kinder
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P.A.Crush & C.W.Kinder
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