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Scope and Contents "The correspondence (of which my son Walter spoke to you) was with the Attorney General of Nova Scotia. I did not retain copies of my letters--there were several exchanges of notes--because he asked as a preliminary that the matter should be considered entirely personal & confidential. I think he is strongly inclined to annexation & somewhat under suspicition by the 'Tupper' crowd. ... I frankly wrote the General that I thought it would [?] be exceedingly difficult to unite the...