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Barclay, Archibaldus to Hawes, Benjamin 3 November 1848, CO 305:1, no. 2085, 269.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (1), Marginalia (1).
Barclay reports to Hawes that he has received the letter that confirms the Admiralty's intentions to dispatch "a steam vessel and a sloop of war" to Vancouver Island, for survey purposes.
2085. Vancouver's Island

2Copied for Parlt
March 1849
Hudson's Bay House
Nov 3 1848
Sir
I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th Ult stating that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty intend to send a steam vessel and a sloop of war to Vancouver's Island for the purpose of general survey and careful examination.
I have honour to be
Sir
Your Obt Servant
A. Barclay
1Benjamin Hawes Esq
&c &c &c
Colonial Office
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Mr Merivale
Put by?
ABd 7 Nov/48.
HM N. 7.
N. 7 BH
G. 8
Footnotes
  1. This addressee information appears at the foot of the first page of the despatch.
  2. Author unknown.
People in this document

Barclay, Archibaldus

Blackwood, Arthur Johnstone

Grey, Henry George

Hawes, Benjamin

Merivale, Herman

Organizations in this document

Colonial Office

Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

Places in this document

Vancouver Island

Barclay, Archibaldus to Hawes, Benjamin 3 November 1848, CO 305:1, no. 2085, 269. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.2, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/V485HB13.html.

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