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Post Office Camden 5.10.78
Sirs
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter informing me that you are unable to procure me a retiring allowance through being no funds available for Pensions.
I am compelled to appeal to you again in the hope that, out of a contingents or other fund, a Gratuity might be granted me.
I am unwilling to believe that after thirty seven years of hard work at a low Salary, providing my own Office, light, furniture too, the Government would suffer me to die at my Post, or to be driven from it without provision for my support.
Although suffering from heart disease and almost unable to sit up, I am compelled from a sense of responsibility to superintend the work of my assistant, not knowing
The Honble The Postmaster General Sydney
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