Other formats

    Adobe Portable Document Format file (facsimile images)   TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

A compendium of official documents relative to native affairs in the South Island, Volume One.

Extract of a Letter from J. Stephen, Esq., to John Backhouse, Esq

Extract of a Letter from J. Stephen, Esq., to John Backhouse, Esq.

Downing Street, 18th March, 1840.

With reference to the concluding paragraph of your letter of the 11th instant, I am directed by Lord John Russell to transmit to you, for the information of Viscount Palmerston, the enclosed Memorandum, containing all the information which it appears to Lord John Russell necessary or practicable to afford in answer to the statements contained in the communication from Mr. Somes to Lord Palmerston, a copy of which accompanied your letter of the 15th November last.