Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to John Cairns, Ashbank, Ryedale, Dumfries 'Dear Sir, We have received a letter from Mr P T Cairns of Philipstown, Cape Colony, in the following terms:- "I would be glad to receive by return mail a copy of the Report of the Malta Fever Commission presided over by Col Sir David Bruce, RAMC. If you send a note of the charges for same to my father John Cairns, Askbank, Ryedale, Maxwelltown, Dumfries, Scotland, he will forward same by return and thus save any possible delay. I require the Report in connection with a Thesis on Malta Fever which I am preparing and which should be ready in October.' 21 June 1910