Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 29 September 1854, CO 305:5, no. 8493, 174.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (2).
Hammond writes to Merivale, on behalf of Clarendon to Grey, to forward a copy of Griffith's note on "the importance of settling the Boundary between Vancouver's Island and the United States.
The minutes observe that, presumably, the Colonial Office can do nothing more on the
“present state of this [boundary] question” at present.
The first document included in the file is a letter from Griffith to Clarendon, which communicates information received from Marcy; the second is a letter from Marcy to Griffith, which reports that an appropriation amendment needed to establish a boundary commission
had been defeated, through want of time, in the US House of Representatives, and that
the same amendment will be submitted again to Congress, next session.
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
September 29th 1854
Sir,
With reference to my letter of the 31st of August I am directed
by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be laid before
Secretary Sir George Grey, a copy of a despatch from Her
Majesty's Charg e d'affaires at Washington containing the reply
of the United States Secretary of State to a note which Mr
Griffith addressed to him urging the importance of settling the
Boundary between Vancouver's Island and the United States.
Minutes by CO staff
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
1. Philip Griffith, British Charg e D'Affaires in Washington, to
Earl of Clarendon, 7 September 1854, communicating the information
received from U.S. Secretary of State William L. Marcy, as enclosed.
