Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 23rd of November, I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you, for the information of Secretary Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, a copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty’s Minister at Washington reporting a conversation with General Cass relative to the sale of ammunition by the Hudson’s Bay Company to Indian Tribes at war with the United States.