I regret that my absence from Town has prevented my sooner
acknowledging your communication of
13 August 1852.
[Marginal note. Perhaps from
Mr. Pakington. There is no official
Communication of this date.
AB]
I now beg to forward you the document to which I alluded, being a
memorial or address signed by every settler except one on
Vancouvers Island; it was presented to me when on the immediate point of leaving
the Island and I did not deposit any copy among the Colonial documents
which I left there as the very nature of the memorial would draw down
upon all who had signed it the ill will and oppression of
the Hudson Bay![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_305_03/co_305_03_00057v.jpg)
the Hudson Bay
Company's Servants, into whose hands the government of the Colony was
passing.