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28, Queensborough Terrace

Hyde Park, W.

1/3/[19]04

TOPCLYFFE GRANGE,

FARNBOROUGH. R.S.O.

KENT

My dear Wallace

I have been out of the way or would have answered your letter of the 26 Feb. ere this

I have been on at the Admiralty to see Admiral Budd who has the dockyard walters[?] in hand and he tells me that they are not wanting any Assistant Electrical Engineers in the dockyards at present, and are not likely to do so for some months yet at the earliest [one word illeg.] the Admiralty on business at least one day a week and will keep a look-out for anything that may [2] be moving in that line & let you or your son know at once whenever anything is doing[.] Preece¹, I hear, is at Assouan² with his daughter. My daughter has been very ill and she and my wife are going out to Egypt on Friday, and will probably see them, for they are not yet certain if they will go as far as Assouan

With kind regards | Yours truly | H.E. Dresser³ [signature]