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Despatch from London
Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, James 4 February 1859, LAC RG7:G8C/7, 56.

Abstract
Despatch from London.
Lytton acknowledges and approves Douglas’s decision to post Captain Grant and his Royal Engineers at Fort Langley.
No. 14
Downing Street
4 February 1859
Sir
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No 35 of the 27th November, and to convey to you my approval of the measures you adopted in sending the detachment of Royal Engineers under Captain Grant without delay to Fort Langley.
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I also approve of the other proceedings reported in your Despatch.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your most obedient
humble Servant
E B Lytton
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Douglas, James

Grant, John Marshall

Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer

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Langley