Franks to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

Immediately on the receipt of your letter of the 16th ulto
I placed myself in communication with the Officers of H.M. Treasury
with a view of entering into the Securities which your letter refers
to. I believe that I shall, in a very short time, be in a position
to report to you that the matter has been arranged.

In the meantime however, it may be convenient that I should
state, in answer to your question
regarding the date at which it will be convenient to me to embark for
the Colony, that with every desire to use despatch, I fear it
will be wholly impossible for me to name an earlier time than the
departure of second West India Mail in June.