Classic (I do get the impression he may well have been literally taking the piss of the colonial system; and knew how to play the game with it) :laugh_at:
“I think the gentleman needs… to be placed under observation as a mental case,” he wrote in one letter dated 8 June 1929. He went on to relate how Waris Ali had handed a bottle of urine to a British official passing through Gwadar “to have it examined in Karachi, as he thought he was suffering from hereditary gonorrhoea”.
But what particularly seems to have infuriated the Major was Waris Ali’s habit of writing as if they were equals. Waris Ali was addressing him as “Dear Murphy” – “with the ‘Major’ put in afterwards,” Murphy spluttered – and signing off with the outlandish line: “Love to Patrick”.
BBC News – The official who put ‘Love to Patrick’ on letters to his boss
