I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch with
its enclosures No. 31 of the 2nd of May.
It affords me much satisfaction to learn that the work of laying
the Electric Cable between Vancouver Island and Washington Territory has
been successfully accomplished.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant Edward Cardwell
Cardwell, Edward to Kennedy, Arthur 21 June 1866, NAC :, 418. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria,
B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/V667026.html.
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