Head to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)
Hudson's Bay House
9 November 1863
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of the 7th Instant.
The Committee quite concurs in the view that it would be better if the instructions respecting the Lands in British Columbia should be given to Mr Seymour, and they desire to express their thanks to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle for his readiness to press the settlement of the question.
I am etc.
Sir Edmund Head
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Mr Elliot
Keep till Mr Seymour's arrival?
VJ 10 Nov
Keep as proposed.
TFE 10/11
N 11
Head, Sir Edmund Walker to Elliot, Thomas Frederick 9 November 1863, CO 60:17, no. 10785, 262. 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/B635MI07.html.

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