Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Austin, William F. to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 26 November 1858, CO 60:2, no. 12198, 450.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Austin enquires whether his letter requesting a position in British Columbia was received by the Colonial Office.
Austin to Lytton
I took the liberty of addressing you with a view that through
your Kindness I may be enabled to "vanquish violence by the
patient endurance of wrong" under which I am suffering And with my
wife [be desired?] to [want?] together with no apparent hope for our
Child urges me respectfully to ask if you received my communication
complainingof my
of my misfortunes and praying your most favourable
Consideration of my case with a view to obtaining employment in
the Colony of New Caledonia under the Government.
of my misfortunes and praying your most favourable
Consideration of my case with a view to obtaining employment in
the Colony of New Caledonia under the Government.