Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Other documents (1).
Hammond to Under-Secretary of State
Foreign Office
March 15, 1869
Sir,
I have laid before The Earl of Clarendon your letter of the
10th instant; and I am, in reply, to request that you will
state to Earl Granville that His Lordship concurs with Rear
Admiral Hastings that, under the circumstances, it will not be
necessary to confer the local and temporary rank of Lieutenant
Colonel on CaptainDelacombeDelacombe, now in command of Her Majesty's
troops at the Island of San Juan.
I am, Sir,
Your most obedient
humble Servant E. Hammond
Minutes by CO staff
Sir F. Rogers
Inform the Admiralty that reference having [been] made to the
F.O. Lord Clarendon is of the opinion &c.
And alter draft already prepared to Govr accordingly.
Hammond, Edmund to Monsell, William 15 March 1869, CO 60:37, no. 2922, 193. 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/B695FO10.html.
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