GILFILLAN, W
490
Regent Street
Westminster
4th Nov’r 1819
Sir
Having served for many years in the Frontier of the Cape of Good Hope as an officer in the Army, since which I have been placed on half pay and being desirous of returning to the Cape to settle in the interior for which my funds are altogether inadequate I beg you may be graciously pleased to grant me a passage with the settlers now on the point of going.
I have the honor to be
Sir your most ob’t humb’l s’t
W. GILFILLAN
H.P. Lieutenant 60th Regt.