Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Stamp, Captain Edward to
Carnarvon, Earl 20 April 1859, CO 60:6, no. 4298, 656.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (2).
Stamp resumes his application for a contract to run a regular mail service between British Columbia and San Francisco and asks the Colonial Office to “press this matter to a prompt and favourable decision.”
The minutes “Copy” to the Treasury.
Stamp to Carnarvon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)
20th April 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 again to trouble your Lordship on the subject of the
Postal Contract between British Columbia and San Francisco. I arrived
in this Country 1st February last for the purpose of endeavouring
to carry out this undertaking.
My sole detention at present is in the hopes, and expectation,
of being able to secure the Postal Contract between British Columbia
and San Francisco in terms of my tender and to which I was led to
believe I should receive a favorable reply early this month, for the
conditions as originally stated therein were modified and amended to
meet the views of the authorities, from whose expressions I gathered,
without being binding upon them, that, with the exception of a matter
of etiquette with the United States Post Office, my offer would be
acceptable and myself and friends considered responsible and
competent for the fulfilment of the Contract. May I beg not simply
in my own name, but in that
that of the Colony whose important interests
are in the meantime so much neglected and injured by want of regular
Mail Communication that you will kindly press this matter to a prompt
and favorable decision.
that of the Colony whose important interests
are in the meantime so much neglected and injured by want of regular
Mail Communication that you will kindly press this matter to a prompt
and favorable decision.
Minutes by CO staff
Copy to Treasury, and request to know, with reference to the
correspondence which has passed on this subject, what ansr it will
be proper to return to Mr Stamp.
There wd seem to have been some discussions with Mr Stamp
at the T-y or G.P. Office on this matter the purport of which is
unknown to this Office.
Annex draft as proposed.
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