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Despatch to London
Douglas, Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 12 January 1859, CO 60:4, no. 2733, 58.

Abstract
Despatch to London. Minutes (1), Marginalia (1).
Douglas acknowledges receipt of Lytton’s earlier despatch, which forwarded a Foreign Office letter on “persons engaged in a system of crimping Sailors” that “have proceeded to Fraser's River from Callao.”
In the minutes, Blackwood asks that the despatch be “Put by.”
No. 72
Victoria, Vancouver's Island
12 January 1859
Sir,
I have duly received your Despatch of the 12th November 1858, No 39 transmitting to me the copy of a letter you have received from the Foreign Office,
F.O. 11266.
stating that certain persons engaged in a system of crimping Sailors are believed toManuscript imageto have proceeded to Fraser's River from Callao.
2. I have to thank you for this information which will put us upon our guard against the machinations of these individuals; and as a precautionary measure I have forwarded a copy of the letter to the Senior Officer of Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Vancouver's Island.
I have etc.
James Douglas
Governor
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Put by.
ABd 15/3
HM Mh 15
C M 16
Douglas, Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 12 January 1859, CO 60:4, no. 2733, 58. 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/B59072.html.

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