The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 333
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British Correspondence Concerning Texas
It will be my duty to Submit to Your Lordship some informa-
tion and news upon the points to which my attention has been
directed by an early occasion.
Charles Elliot.
The Right Honorable.
The Earl of Aberdeen K. T.
ELLIOT TO ABERDEEN1
No. 4. Galveston. September 4th. 1842
My Lord,
I have the honor to Acknowledge Your Lordship's despatch No.
4. of the 1st July, enclosing a Copy of the Protocol of a Confer-
ence between Your Lordship, and Mr. Ashbell Smith, at the For-
eign Office, on the 28th June last, recording the exchange of the
Ratifications of the three undermentioned Treaties, between Her
Majesty and the Republic of Texas.
1. A Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, signed at London
on the 13th November 1840.
2d. A Convention containing certain arrangements relative to
the public Debt, signed at London on the 14th Novr. 1840 :-and
3d. A Treaty for the Suppression of African Slave Trade,
signed at London on the 16th November 1840.
I have also to Acknowledge the receipt of six Copies of each of
the above Treaties, signed on the 13th and 14th November 1840.
And also Copies of Protocols of the conferences held at the For-
eign Office on the 19th May and 14th October 1841, between the
Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain and Texas, extending the time
for the exchange of the Ratifications.
Charles Elliot
The Right Honorable.
The Earl of Aberdeen.1F. 0., Texas, Vol. 4.
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