Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 6 November 1858, CO 60:1, no. 540, 373.

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Despatch to London
Douglas, James to Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer 6 November 1858, CO 60:1, no. 540, 373.

Abstract

Despatch to London. Minutes (1).

Douglas acknowledges the receipt of correspondence between the Colonial Office and the Foreign Office concerning certain queries addressed to the British agent at Washington by the Pacific Mail Steam Packet Company.

The minutes Put by.

No. 21

Victoria, Vancouver's Island

6 November 1858

Sir,

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your Despatch of the 2nd September 1858, No 17 1 transmitting for my information copy of correspondence between the Colonial Office and the Foreign Office, of the dates as per margin 2 touching certain queries addressedto

to Her Majesty's Minister at Washington by the Secretary to the Pacific Mail Steam Packet Company.

I have etc.
James Douglas
Governor of Vancouver's Island
and of British Columbia

Minutes by CO staff

Mr Merivale
Put by.

VJ 17 Jan

C Jany 18

Footnotes

= Lytton to Douglas No. 17 CO 398/1, p. 87, 2 September 1858.
Marginal note: F.O. 26 July 1858; C.O. 25 August 1858. The references are to: E. Hammond, Foreign Office, to Merivale, 26 July 1858, with sub-enclosures from Lord Napier to the Earl of Malmesbury, 12 July 1858, and William Hodge to Lord Napier, 2 July 1858; and Merivale to Hammond, 25 August 1858. They are printed in Papers Relative to the Affairs of British Columbia, Part I, pp. 63-65. Napier was minister at Washington and William Hodge was Secretary to the Pacific Mail Steam Packet Company.