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Date: 1863-01-24
By: Duke of Newcastle
Citation: Despatch from the Duke of Newcastle to Lieutenant Governor Arthur Gordon (24 January 1863), No. 2 in UK, HC, Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 30 June 1864; for Copy of Correspondence between any of the North American Provinces and the Imperial Government, relating to their Application for Assistance in raising a Loan for an International Railway (1864).
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Downing-street, 24 January 1863.     

Sir,

I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith a copy of a Memorandum* which Messrs. Sicotte and Howland, the delegates from Canada, on the subject of the Inter-colonial Railway, have addressed to me, on their departure from England.

I have, &c.                 

(signed)           Newcastle.