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Despatch from London
Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 5 October 1858, LAC :, 217.

Abstract
Despatch from London.
Lytton regrets Douglas’s “painful disclosures” on the state of the prison at Vancouver Island. He hopes Douglas and the House of Assembly can “remedy so great an evil.”
No. 27
Downing Street,
5 October 1858
Sir,
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your [Vancouver Island] Despatch No 33 of the 13th of August last, 1 enclosing copies of your correspondence with the House of Assembly from the 16th June, to the 10th of August.
I have read withgreatManuscript image great regret the painful disclosures as to the state of the Prison in Vancouver's Island 2 which are contained in the report of the Committee appointed to enquire into that subject, and I earnestly hope that through your energy and the favorable disposition of the Assembly measures will not only be proposed but carried out to remedy so great an evil.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your most obedient
humble Servant,
E B Lytton
Footnotes
  1. I.e, Douglas to Stanley, No. 33, 13 August 1858, 9853, CO 305/9, p. 170.
  2. = state of prison. State of the prison in Vancouver's Island. Corr with Assembly??
People in this document

Douglas, Sir James

Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer

Places in this document

Vancouver Island

Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 5 October 1858, LAC :, 217. 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/B587027.html.

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