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Despatch to London
Douglas, Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 14 May 1859, CO 60:4, no. 6508, 367.

Abstract
Despatch to London. Minutes (1), Other documents (1), Marginalia (1).
Douglas writes to Lytton on “the latest intelligence” from British Columbia, which discusses one G.B. Wright’s letter to Victoria’s Collector of Customs. Said letter mentions mining sources and operations, and the “rush forward to the upper Fraser in large numbers.”
In the minutes, Blackwood suggests that Douglas be thanked for this “most recent intelligence.”
The file includes a draft response from Newcastle to Douglas, which acknowledges receipt of Douglas’s despatch and thanks him for the report.
No. 154
Government House
Victoria Vancouver's Island
14 May 1859
Sir,
By an unexpected conveyance which is on the eve of departure, I beg to communicate to you the latest intelligence I have received from British Columbia.
2. In a letter addressed to the Collector of Customs at Victoria byManuscript imageby a Mr G.B. Wright, a respectable Merchant, and dated at Bridge River, April 2nd, some specimens of native Copper, quartz and gold are enclosed, and Mr Wright states that the reports at that time from the upper Country are of very rich, but shallow diggings; that large quantities of gold were then being taken from the Wars, and that a great many of the sluicing companies who have permanent Diggings were commencing work, and also that men were continuingManuscript imagecontinuing to rush forward to the upper Fraser in large numbers.
3. I forward herewith the latest numbers of the Victoria Gazette.
12 & 14 May.
I have etc.
James Douglas
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Acke with thanks for the information, & for availing himself of chance opportunities of communicating to H.M. Govt the most recent intelligence respecting a Country about which so much interest is felt at home?
ABd 27 June
HM June 27
N 28
Other documents included in the file
Manuscript image
Draft reply, Newcastle to Douglas, No. 5, 4 July 1859.
Douglas, Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 14 May 1859, CO 60:4, no. 6508, 367. 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/B59154.html.

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