Richards to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)
Admiralty
Somerset House, W.C.
24 November 1858
Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 22nd Instant; 1 I beg to acquaint you that conveyance to Vancouver's Island has been engaged in the "Euphrates," lying in the London Docks, for the Baggage of Mr Begbie, Judge of British Columbia; and request that it may be forwarded for Shipment, (carriage paid) to the care of the Captain Superintendt at Deptford.
I have etc.
Chas. Richards
Minutes by CO staff
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Acquaint Mr Begbie.
ABd 25 Nov
Annex draft.
C N 27
Other documents included in the file
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Draft, Elliot to M.B. Begbie, 3 December 1858, advising that passage to Vancouver Island had been arranged on the Euphrates.
Footnotes
  1. Elliot to Admiralty, 22 November 1858, FIND re baggage for Begbie in Euphrates.
People in this document

Begbie, Matthew Baillie

Blackwood, Arthur Johnstone

Carnarvon, Earl

Elliot, Thomas Frederick

Richards, Charles

Vessels in this document

Euphrates

Places in this document

British Columbia

London

Vancouver Island

Richards, Charles to Elliot, Thomas Frederick 24 November 1858, CO 60:2, no. 12071, 54. 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/B585AD18.html.

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