Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Stamp, Captain Edward to
Carnarvon, Earl 11 March 1859, CO 60:6, no. 2693, 650.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
Stamp asks if the Colonial Office will endorse to the Admiralty his proposal to sell spars
to the navy.
The minutes hope Stamp’s “undertaking may prove successful” but the CO cannot offer assistance.
Stamp to Carnarvon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)
11th March 1859
To The Right Honorable
The Earl of Carnarvon
Under Secretary of State for the Colonies
&c &c &c
My Lord
My Lord
I beg leave to address your Lordship respecting an application
which I am now making to My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty copy
of which I herewith inclose.
I am aware this matter does not come within the jurisdiction of
the Colonial Office, but believing that whatever is likely to benefit
and open the resources of the young and promising colony of British
Columbia, will meet with a favourable reception from your Lordship, I
respectfully beg your kind intercession with My Lords of the
Admiralty—I only ask permission to supply the Admiralty with Spars
at the usual price, and of better quality than can be got from any
other part of the world. 
As a proof of my ability to carry out a
contract of this kind, I beg to state that there are three cargo's now in
London sent home by myself, which are admitted by our best judges of
timber, to be superior to any spars they have ever seen.
As a proof of my ability to carry out a
contract of this kind, I beg to state that there are three cargo's now in
London sent home by myself, which are admitted by our best judges of
timber, to be superior to any spars they have ever seen.
Minutes by CO staff
I do not know in what way we can help the writer; for I
apprehend we are ignorant of the merits, except from report, of this
Timber.
ABd
12/3
Add, I think, that Sir E Lytton would gladly see the resources
of B Columbia developed, & hopes the undertaking may prove
successful, but that he cannot interfere with the judgment of the
Ls of the Admty on so important a point as the supply of naval
timber.
Other documents included in the file
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Stamp to Secretary of the Admiralty, 9 March 1859, making
application to supply spars for the service of the Royal Navy.