Confidential
Bordeaux. 4th May-1874
Sir Rutherford Alcock Macdonnell to Mr. J. Rogers
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Sir,
Hotel de Nantes Bordeaux
4th May 1871.
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your "Confidential" Despatch of the 22 April transmitting by direction of the Earl of Kimberley copy of communications of the 18th and 18th January last, from Mr Wade, H.B.M. Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, and addressed to the Foreign Office.
2. Mr Wade suggests therein...