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Correspondence (private letter)
Taylor Juniour, John to Elliot, Thomas Frederick 23 August 1852, CO 305:3, no. 7950, 578.

Abstract
Correspondence (private letter). Minutes (1).
Taylor, on behalf of Gray, sends to Elliot a formal application for a land lease at Haida Gwaii.
The minutes recommend that the Colonial Office’s reply to Gray’s initial inquiry on land leases be circulated (as seen in this despatch).
6 Queen Street Place
Southwark Bridge
London
Augst 23 1852
My dear Sir
My Brother Mr Richard Taylor has already communicated with you as he informed me before he left London, upon the subject of an application from Mr Nutter Gray on behalf of his Brother & others for a Lease of a Gold Vein discovered in Queen's Charlotte's Island in the North Pacific ocean.
I now beg to enclose a formal letter of application from Mr N. Gray to Sir John PakingtonManuscript image which my Brother & I shall feel much obliged to you to place in his hands.
I remain
Your's faithfully
John Taylor Jr

Mr Frederick Elliott Esqre
&. &. &c
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Mr Blackwood
I can put in circulation our answer to Mr Gray. This letter to me may be Put By.
TFE 20 Sep
Taylor Juniour, John to Elliot, Thomas Frederick 23 August 1852, CO 305:3, no. 7950, 578. 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/V526T01.html.

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