Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Seymour, Florence Maria to
Leveson-Gower, Granville George 28 August 1869, CO 60:37, no. 10012, 604.
Abstract
Seymour, Florence Maria to
Leveson-Gower, Granville George 28 August 1869, CO 60:37, no. 10012, 604.
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (3), Other documents (2).
Seymour (Mrs.) to Granville
Mereworth Rectory
Maidstone
28th Augt 1869
Maidstone
My Lord
I have to thank Your Lordship very gratefully for your kind
expressions of sympathy with me in the terrible affliction, with
which I have been visited, and at the same time to tell Your
Lordship
how truly gratified I was to see the very flattering
terms, in which you have spoken of the services rendered by my
dear husband to the Colony of British Columbia, of which he was
in charge up to the time of his most deeply deplored death.
how truly gratified I was to see the very flattering
terms, in which you have spoken of the services rendered by my
dear husband to the Colony of British Columbia, of which he was
in charge up to the time of his most deeply deplored death.
May I venture to address Your Lordship on a subject of much
importance to me and
to ask Your Lordship to kindly interest
yourself in my behalf in furtherance of some claim I think I
may have on Her Majesty's Government for a sum of £500, to
defray the expenses of my journey home from the Colony. More
particularly as I have reason for believing that had my dear
husband been spared to accompany me
home, at the expiration of
his term of office he would have been entitled to the sum of
£800 in defrayment of his passage to this Country.
to ask Your Lordship to kindly interest
yourself in my behalf in furtherance of some claim I think I
may have on Her Majesty's Government for a sum of £500, to
defray the expenses of my journey home from the Colony. More
particularly as I have reason for believing that had my dear
husband been spared to accompany me
home, at the expiration of
his term of office he would have been entitled to the sum of
£800 in defrayment of his passage to this Country.
Hoping that Your Lordship will take my request into your
favourable consideration.
Minutes by CO staff
Sir F. Sandford
Mr Seymour assumed the Govt 20 April 1864—so that in April 1870 he would have become entitled to the Passage Allowance home.
Mr Seymour assumed the Govt 20 April 1864—so that in April 1870 he would have become entitled to the Passage Allowance home.
But I do not at this moment recollect a precedent in favor of
Mrs Seymours application.
CC
8/9
There is a precedent in the case of
Sir D. Daly (S. Australia) wh wd justify the 500.
Recommend on the strength of that precedent.
Other documents included in the file
Rogers to Secretary to the Treasury, 20 September 1869,
forwarding copy of Mrs. Seymour's letter for consideration and
recommending approval of the grant.
Birch to Meade, 2 September 1869, enclosing Mrs.
Seymour's letter to Granville, along with one
from Mrs. Seymour to Birch in which she asks him to forward the
former to Granville.