From
April 24. 1849(?)
Lord Elgin
Copy
44220
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Secret
Z
April 25. 1889
H[ong] Kong(?)
My Lord(?)
I have
Miscellaneous Offices
received your
Desp[atch] of(?) the 24th inst submitting
your reply to
Desp[atch] No 4
of(?) the 18th inst(?)
that any attempt to obtain
as part of a
new Treaty arrangement with China, if such be the result of H[er] M[ajesty's] Special Embassy,
the cession of the
Kowloon Peninsula might be attended
with inconvenience, and that the
mode of effecting
least objectionable mode
that object wd be to obtain the
in lieu of
cession by purchase in
what may
be deemed as
portion of the indemnity
demanded from China.
The acquisition
wd be equivalent.
To be
The Peninsula
would be a great convenience
doubtless be
The Earl of Elgin &c &c &c K.T. G.C.B.(?)