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Reference	2057/F8/V/A/18
Level	Item
Title	Copy of a “private & confidential” letter from Sidney Herbert to Lord Canning informing him that the necessary instructions have been issued for the forces to go to China. November 26. [Editor: Herbert called the impending campaign a “very delicate and disagreeable affair” but one intended not to upset the Chinese dynasty (unlike the French objective), therefore “we don’t want to go to Pekin”]
Date	1859

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