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Date: 1864-10-14
By: Edward Cardwell, Province of Canada (Parliament)
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Viscount Monck (14 October 1864) in Journals of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada, 8th Parl, 3rd Sess, 1865 at 36-48.
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(Copy, Canada, No. 79.)

DOWNING  STREET,
14th October, 1864.

MY LORD,—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship’s Despatch (No. 135) of the 23rd of September, reporting that you had invited the Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, together with the Governor of Newfoundland, to send Delegates to Quebec to attend a Conference on the subject of the proposed Union of the British North American Provinces.

I approve of the course Your Lordship has taken in the matter.

I have, &c.,
(Signed,) EDWARD CARDWELL.

Governor Viscount Monck.