Willis to Under-Secretary of State
Department of The Comptroller of Transport Services
Admiralty,
Somerset House
20 October 1859
Sir,
I beg to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State, in answer to your Letter of the 18th Instant that passage to Colon for the Bishop of Columbia and his 2 Servants, has been ordered on board the Contract Mail Steam Packet, which will leave Southampton on the 17th November.
I have etc.
Wm Willis
for Comptroller of
Transport Services
Minutes by CO staff
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Acquaint the Bishop.
ABd 21 Oct
Willis, William to Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford Chichester 20 October 1859, CO 60:5, no. 10511, 409. 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/B595AD31.html.

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