Please do me the favor to transmit that His Excellency desires me to point out that it is not possible to forward this letter by the outgoing Mail owing to its having been sent in at so late an hour, but that leaving in by the mail on the 15th November, His Excellency will transmit it to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle.
I am also to call your attention to an error in the copy of your letter No:55 of 13th Instant, wherein the words "did not emanate" were written, while in the original the words are "did emanate".
Treasury, Hongkong
2nd November, 1863.
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt on Saturday, the 31st ultimo, of your letter No 1320, and its enclosures. I forwarded them for transmission by the Acting Governor to Sir Frederick Rogers, the Permanent Colonial Under-Secretary.
His Excellency desires me to point out to you an error in the copy of your letter No:55 of 13th Instant, wherein the words "did not emanate" were written, while in the original the words are "did emanate".
I have &c.
(Signed) W. H. Alexander.
The Honorable
Acting Colonial Secretary.
The Colonial Treasurer.
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You also drew my attention to an oversight in my letter No 1320, wherein I left out inadvertently the word "not"; the mistake therefore is not in the copy but in the original, the context...
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