Moody to Carnarvon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)
Immediate
Topographical Office, War Dept
4 New Street, Spring Gardens
20th Sept 1858
My Lord
I have the honour to request that the Lord Commrs of Her Majesty's Treasury may be authorized to place to my credit at Cox & Coy the sum of £3000 three thousand pounds as a first installment, for the payment of stores authorised to be purchased for the British Columbian Expedition, such stores not being obtainable from the Tower.
I have the honor to be My Lord
Yr most obedient humble servant
R.C. Moody
Col. R.E.

Lord Carnarvon
Under Secretary of State for the Colonies
&c &c &c
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Merivale
Recommend payment to the Treasury.
ABd 22 Sepr
Annex dt.
HM S 22
Other documents included in the file
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Draft, Colonial Office to C.E. Trevelyan, Immediate, 24 September 1858, recommending payment.