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[Sidenote: 1837. Jan. 2.]
It was with great pleasure I learned from Captain Parker that he had appointed my young friend, George H. Seymour, midshipman, son of the much-respected Admiral Sir George Seymour, K. C. B., as "lent" to _Childers_, but unfortunately, as it proved, for a very short time.