I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt this day of your
Despatches of the numbers and dates noted in the margin.
Originals No. 31, 29 June; unnumbered 30 June 1865
(acknowledging receipt of despatches).
Duplicates No. 29, 8 June, and No. 30, 9 June 1865.
Confidential 9 June 1865 (without enclosures).
Circulars 2, 3 and 10 June (without enclosures), and 15 June
1865.
It appears therefore (referring to my Despatch N
o 69 of the
19th
instant) that both the originals and the duplicates of any
Despatches which you may have forwarded to me between the
4th May
and the
8th June (including among them N
os 26, 27, and 28) have
been lost—that both the originals and the duplicates of any
Circular Despatches so
forwarded
forwarded between the
4th May and the
2nd
June have also been lost—and that the originals of the duplicate
Despatches and Circulars above named in the margin have likewise been
lost.