No. 26
8 November 1858
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 1st September last, marked "Separate", 1 introducing Captain Parsons of the Royal Engineers, who arrived here on the 29th Ultimo, by the Mail Steamer Panama from San Francisco, with the Detachment under hiscommandManuscript image command in perfect health.
2. I have, according to your instructions, provided House accommodation for Captain Parsons and the detachment at this place, and I will afford him every possible assistance in my power towards providing for the arrival of Colonel Moody; and, further, should temporary accommodation for the party be required at any of the Hudson's Bay Trading Posts, I will take care that such accommodation be afforded.
I have etc.
James Douglas
Governor of Vancouver's Island
and of British Columbia
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Merivale
Copy to the War Office for information? L[ithographed] F[orm].
VJ 17 Jan
Annex dt.
C Jany 18
Footnotes
  1. = Lytton to Douglas, 1 September 1858, Separate, CO 398/1, p. 52, arrival of Parsons. Cf. footnote on Douglas to Stanley, 19 August 1858, No. 34, 10342, CO 60/1, p. 86. CHECK
People in this document

Carnarvon, Earl

Douglas, Sir James

Jadis, Vane

Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer

Merivale, Herman

Moody, Colonel Richard Clement

Parsons, Captain Robert Mann

Vessels in this document

Panama

Places in this document

British Columbia

San Francisco

Vancouver Island

Victoria

Douglas, Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 8 November 1858, CO 60:1, no. 545, 390. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B58026.html.

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