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No. 3.
Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad to Colonial Office.
(Confidential.) Sir,
13, Delahay Street, October 26, 1881. IN reply to your letter of the 19th October,* in which you inform the Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad of the steps which the Earl of Kimberley intends to take with regard to the distribution of copies of their first Report, I am directed to transmit to you the ten copies, with which his Lordship desires to be furnished.
With reference to the third paragraph of your letter, I am to inform you that no copies of the Report have been issued with the exception of those sent to you, and those which have been retained for the use of the Commission.
No. 4.
I have, &c. (Signed)
HERBERT JEKYLL.
Sir,
Colonial Office to Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad.
Downing Street, December 6, 1881. WITH reference to your letter of the 26th October last,† I am directed by the Earl of Kimberley to request that you will state to the Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad that his Lordship will be glad to be furnished with the following additional number of copies of the first Report of the Royal Commission, viz. :—
Twenty-five or thirty complete copies of the Report, Appendices, and Evidence.
Twenty-five copies of the Report and Appendices without the Evidence.
Twenty-five copies of each complete section of the Report printed on one side only. Twenty-five copies of each of the Appendices printed on one side only.
I am to state that when these copies have been supplied the type may be distributed, so far as this Department is concerned, if the Royal Commissioners should think proper to give instructions to that effect.
No. 5.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
R. H. MEADE.
Sir,
Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad to Colonial Office.
13, Delahay Street, February 9, 1882.
WITH reference to your letter of the 6th December, 1881,‡ I am now directed by the Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad to transmit to you the undermentioned printed papers :—
Thirty copies of the first Report of the Commission, with Appendices and Evidence complete. Twenty-five copies of the Report and Appendices without the Evidence. Twenty-five copies of each complete section of the Report.
Twenty-five copies of each of the Appendices.
Your requirements having thus been fulfilled, the printer has been instructed to distribute the type.
I am to add that the Royal Commissioners think it right to draw attention to the extremely confidential nature of these papers, and to suggest that they should be kept in a place of undoubted safety.
No. 6.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
HERBERT JEKYLL.
Sir,
Colonial Office to Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad.
Downing Street, February 20, 1882.
I AM directed by the Earl of Kimberley to request that you will state to the Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad that the printed papers referred to in your letter of the 9th instant,§ have been received from the printers, and have been placed under lock and key.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
ROBERT G. W. HERBERT.
* No. 2.
+ No. 3.
No. 4.
§ No. 5.
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