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Date: 1865-01-07
By: Edward Cardwell
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Lieutenant-Governor Richard Graves Macdonnell (7 January 1865) in UK, Parliament, Correspondence respecting the Proposed Union of the British North American Provinces (London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1867).
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No. 1.

COPY of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. EDWARD CARDWELL, M.P., to Lieut.-Governor Sir R. G. MACDONNELL, C.B.

(No. 3.)

Downing Street, January 7, 1865.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. […]* of the 8th of December, enclosing a copy of the resolutions adopted at the Conference recently held at Quebec on the subject of the union of the British North American Provinces.

I have, &c.

(Signed) EDWARD CARDWELL.

Lieut-Gov. Sir R. G. MacDonnell, C.B.,
&c. &c. &c.