Cardwell acknowledges receipt of Kennedy’s despatch and asks him to inform Nicholles that Cardwell has received Nicholles’s letter of complaint regarding high rents, the free port policy, disillusionment caused by misrepresentation in The
Times as to the availability of land.
No. 23
26th July 1864
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 33
of the 4th of June, and to request that you will inform Mr. Nicholles,
whose letter you enclose, that I have duly received his communication.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your most obedient
humble servant Edward Cardwell