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[marginal notation written sideways on page 2 of letter p 146:
"Mr. Moriarty - answer thus:-
Sir, I am (?instructed?) by Governor
Sir George Bowen to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter
of 5th inst (addressed to Mr
Alfred Denison); & I state that
His Excellency regrets that it
will not be in his power to
employ you in the public
service of Queensland in the
existing vacancies having
already been (?)
for ?now?
GFB)"]

[another note underneath:
"Answ'd
15 Dec 1859
(?)"]