EvKNTs OF HIS LIFE. 187 14 Loudon Street, Calcutta June 26, 1904. My dear Banerjce I ask you to accept my most cordial congratulations on the honour recently conferred upon you by His Majesty. It is specially pleasing to myself to find that the long and meritorious public scrvices of so valued a friend and colleague have been recognised and I am confident that such recognition will be welcomed by your numerous Indian and European friends. I can only wish you many years in which to enjoy it and subscribe myself. Your sincore friend Francis W. Maclean. London B. C. 30th June 1904. My dear Banerjee I hope you will accept the sincere congratulations of your late younger brother in the Court on the wellmerited honour conferred upon you in the Birth Day Gazette. I am quite sure that the news must have been received with pleasure by all who know you personally and officially, as it certainly was by myself. Apart from all other considerations, I am very pleased to welcome so conspicuous a refutation of the assertion which we so frequently sce and hear that honours are reserved for those who seek them even at the cost of their independence and self-respect. 米 米 米 Believe me Yours sincerely J. F. Stevens.
