I took the liberty of addressing you with a view that through
your Kindness I may be enabled to "vanquish violence by the
patient endurance of wrong" under which I am suffering And with my
wife [be desired?] to [want?] together with no apparent hope for our
Child urges me respectfully to ask if you received my communication
complaining
of my of my misfortunes and praying your most favourable
Consideration of my case with a view to obtaining employment in
the Colony of
New Caledonia under the Government.