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Barclay, Doctor Archibaldus to Merivale, Herman 16 May 1853, CO 305:4, no. 5479, 266.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (2).
This memo, from Barclay to Merivale, asks Merivale if he has received Barclay’s earlier note, one attached to a packet destined for the governor of Vancouver Island. Finally, the memo asks, on behalf of the “Governor and Committee,” to have said mail packet sent through, presumably, government channels, as an HBC ship is not set to sail for “some months.”
In the minutes, Blackwood asks Elliott to ask Barclay to send his correspondence “through the G.P. Office,” and to prepare duplicates of all “to go by the first Ship of the Company that sails.”
Memo, Barclay to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)


Mr Barclay presents his Compliments to Mr Merivale and begs to acknowledge the receipt of his note of the 10th Inst accompanying a packet for the Governor of Vancouver's Island.
As it will be some months before the HB Company send a ship to Vancouver's Island the Governor and Committee wish to know whether they may forward this packet and some others, lately sent to the HB House for transmission, as they do their own despatches, through the Post Office.
H.B. House
May 16, 1853
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Mr Elliot
Beg Mr Barclay to send the despatches, with those of the Company, through the G.P. Office & prepare duplicate despes to go by the first Ship of the Company that sails.
ABd 27/5
Annexed.
HM May 27
Barclay, Doctor Archibaldus to Merivale, Herman 16 May 1853, CO 305:4, no. 5479, 266. 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/V535HB10.html.

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