General Post Office, Hongkong
The 25th May, 1863.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this morning on the subject of the correspondence which has taken place between the General Post Office in London and the Directors of your Company respecting the illegal conveyance of letters on board their Packets between Shanghae and Hongkong, stating that you are ignorant of the practice alluded to
Thomas Sutherland, Esqre
Superintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company