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Public Offices document
Reep, Richard Thompson to Merivale, Herman 31 August 1858, CO 6:26, no. 8843 NA, 314.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (1).
Reep inform the CO that the “La Plata” will be detained in order to allow for the arrival of the Queen’s Messenger.
The minutes “Put by.”
Reep to Merivale
Royal Mail Steam Packet
Company,
No 55, Moorgate Street,
London
31st August 1858
Sir,
I am desired by the Directors of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date and in reply to inform you that the necessary instructions will be issued to carry into effect the detention of La Plata until the arrival of the Queen's Messenger from Osborne, in accordance with the request of Secretary Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton.
I am Sir,
Your obedient Servant
Rd T. Reep
Secretary
Herman Merivale Esquire
&c &c &c
Downing Street
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Put by.
ABd. 1 Septr.
HM S 1 C. Sep 1
Reep, Richard Thompson to Merivale, Herman 31 August 1858, CO 6:26, no. 8843 NA, 314. 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/V585MI29.html.

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