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Despatch from London
Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 17 September 1858, LAC :, 203.

Abstract
Despatch from London.
Lytton informs Douglas that the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel have sent Reverend James Gammage to the mining population of British Columbia; he will take passage on the “Thames City” with the party of Royal Engineers.
No. 23
Downing Street,
17 September 1858
Sir,
I have to acquaint you that the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel have selected the Reverend James Gammage to officiate amongst the mining population of British Columbia. 1
I have providedMrManuscript image Mr Gammage (who will be paid by the Society) with a passage in the ship "Thames City" which is about to take out the party of Royal Engineers to British Columbia.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your most obedient
humble servant
E B Lytton
Footnotes
  1. See 9243, Society for Propagation of Gospel, 9 September 1958, CO 6/26 GET See also Bullock to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary), 19 September 1858, 9634, CO 60/2, p. 142.
People in this document

Douglas, Sir James

Gammage, Reverend James

Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer

Vessels in this document

Thames City, 1856

Places in this document

British Columbia

Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 17 September 1858, LAC :, 203. 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/B587023.html.

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