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Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 3 February 1860, CO 305:15, no. 1176, 126.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (1), Other documents (1).
Hammond informs Newcastle that a series of communications between Cass, Dallas, and Russell regarding the San Juan question can be communicated as confidential papers to Douglas.
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
3 February 1860
I have laid before Lord John Russell your letter of the 16th ultimo and I am to state to you, in reply, for the information of His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, that Lord John Russell thinks that the Despatch of General Cass to Mr Dallas of the 20th of October respecting the San Juan question, and His Lordship's replies thereto, Nos 114 and 123 of the 29th of November and 16thManuscript image16th of December last, may be communicated as confidential papers to the Governor of Vancouver's Island.
I am etc.
E. Hammond
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Mr Merivale
Then forward the papers to the Govr impressing on him that they are Confidential.
ABd 4 Feb
HM F 4
CF 6
N 7
Other documents included in the file
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Draft reply, Newcastle to Douglas, Confidential, 13 February 1860, forwarding copies of a further correspondence between the British government and the government of the United States regarding the San Juan Island dispute, along with a copy of a Despatch subsequently received from Lord Lyons repeating the substance of a conversation he had had with General Cass on reading to him the proposals [of the British government] for the settlement of the Oregon boundary question.