Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, James 15 December 1858, LAC RG7:G8C/6, 472.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Marginalia (1).
Lytton acknowledges the receipt of Douglas’s despatches from September and October 1858 regarding his
measures for establishing the Government of British Columbia, and for maintaining law and order in the Colony.
No. 54
Downing Street,
15 December 1858
Sir,
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your [Vancouver
Island] despatches of the numbers and dates noted in the
margin
1
and to convey to you my thanks for the satisfactory explanations which
they afford of your measures for establishing the Government of BritishColumbia
Columbia
Columbia, and for maintaining law and order in the Colony.
No. 40, 29 September; No. 42, 30 September; No. 43, 11 October.
Columbia
Columbia, and for maintaining law and order in the Colony.