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.
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
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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