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Date: 1865-01-13
By: Edward Cardwell
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Viscount Monck (13 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 Viscount MONCK.

(No.5.)

Downing Street, January 13, 1865

MY LORD,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship’s Despatch No. 203, * of the 23rd of December, relative to the proposed Union of the British North American Provinces, and enclosing a copy of a Despatch which you had addressed to the Lient-Governors of the Lower Provinces and to the Governor of Newfoundland on the subject.

I have, &c.

(Signed) EDWARD CARDWELL

Viscount Monck,
&c. &c.