I take the liberty to inform your Grace that in a letter from my
Brother Francis Gray dated
16 May 1853 San Francisco, he states that he
and his partners
Anthony Easterby and
Matthew Rooney discovered a Coal
[Coal underlined by CO staff] Mine in
Queen Charlotte's Island.
Unfortunately the letters of the
1 May containing the full
particulars of this discovery have not come to hand, but immediately
they arrive I will forward
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them to your Grace.