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Despatch from London
Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes to Kennedy, Arthur 3 February 1864, NAC RG7:G8C/04, 25.

Abstract
Despatch from London. Enclosures (untranscribed) (2).
Newcastle sends a letter, and its enclosure from Howard to Kennedy, regarding Douglas Pine, requesting that no more seeds or cones be sent to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests.
No. 4
3rd February 1864
Sir,
With reference to your Predecessor's despatch No. 45 of the 3rd of November last I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a letter with its enclosure from the Honble Jas. R. Howard on the subject of the Douglas Pine, from which you will learn that it is not the wish of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests that anymoreManuscript image more seeds or cones should be collected for that office until the result of those recently sent home has been ascertained.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your obedient servant
Newcastle
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
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Copy, Howard to Elliot, 22 January 1864, thanking the Colonial Office for the seeds but requesting that no more seeds be sent.
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Copy, J.E. Nelson to L.H. Cumberbatch, 19 January 1864, reporting that the Douglas Fir cones "did not produce" the amount of seedlings expected.