Wellington 28 May 1868 My dear McLean I have just received your note about Jack [St George], and thank you for the promise to interest yourself in his favor. I write now just in consequence of a remark in your letter to the effect that J. Georgehad refused an offer of an In fact it was the offer of a Inspectorship which he refused and which in fact I advised him to refuse. I forget the details now but I think it would have been placing him the command of officers junior to himself or whom he had actually commanded. will tell you whenever you give him an opportunity. As he never had had a single step of promotion, which has been given to so many, I verily believe of it, I think he was perfectly right in refusing the -Inspectorship - more particularly as it was only because he was my relative that I did not give him a Captaincy in the Troop at the first starting. However I will not bother you now any more about this - but thanking you for your kindness in many instances to Jack am Dr McLean Yours ever truly A. Domett