"DOWNING STREET,
"20 Feby. 1863.
"MY DEAR MR. WATKIN,
"It has not been till to-day that I could have given you any answer
respecting the proposed subsidy to the N. W. Transit.
"I think a short verbal communication would be more satisfactory than
explanation by letter.
"Can you call here to-morrow about 2.30, or, if more convenient, at
Thomas' Hotel - between 11 and 1.
"Yours very sincerely,
"NEWCASTLE."
"DOWNING STREET,
"27 March, 1863.
"MY DEAR SIR,
"I do not on the first blush of your proposal see any great difficulty
in agreeing to it, - if indeed the Imperial Government is in
absolute possession of the tract of country you speak of.
"I have requested Sir F. Rogers to look into this and see you if you
like to call upon him when you come to town.
"I leave London to-morrow morning for, I hope, a fortnight.
"I am, yours sincerely,
"NEWCASTLE."
This letter of the 27th March, 1863, was in reply to a letter from
me: -
"ROSE HILL, NORTHEN,
"March 27th, 1863.
"MY LORD DUKE,
"In looking over the maps very carefully prior to sending in the
documents proposed to be transmitted through your Grace, I find that it
is very probable - from the desirability of carrying a telegraph through
a wooded country, and avoiding the plains, where buffaloes often move
about in square miles of extent - that we may go through the Imperial
territory for a more or less considerable distance.
