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shall Susan send it directly from here with certificates from the Doctor & Gen Armstrong or shall it go through you?

I trust the delay in receiving from the Government the permission for Leming's return, & in the starting of the party, may not cause him his life.

He has been getting on so well during

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the trying month of March that we had begun to feel that if the Government did not accede to our application for him to return with Noah perhaps there would after all be no risk in his remaining till June & going home with Stella, but to-day he has been taken ill though I cannot yet tell how serious it will prove (pain in his chest).