Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
King, Edward Hammond to
Carnarvon, Earl 24 July 1858, CO 305:9, no. 7288, 615.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (2), Other documents (1).
King informs the CO that he “gave notice of [his] intention to resign” from his current
employment and will be ready to “leave England at the shortest notice.”
The minutes regret that King quit his job “on the strength of a Letter which held out to him no promise of employment.”
The CO decide, in future, to craft their letters more clearly to avoid this kind of
“misapprehension.”
King to Under-Secretary of State
Carmarthen, South Wales
24th July 1858
Sir
In reply to your letter of 14th inst. informing me that my
name is recorded on [the] list of Candidates for Employment in
Vancouvers Island, and in returning my most sincere thanks to
the Right Honble The Secretary for the Colonies for the honor
and favor he has thereby conferred upon me, I beg respectfully
to intimate that upon Receipt of the above mentioned letter I
gave notice of my intention to resign my present appointment and
I am prepared to leave England at the shortest notice, and
should the services of
an efficient body of Police
be required I could without any difficulty procure them.
I have the honor to be Sir,
Your most obedient Servant
E. Hammond King
Superintendent
Carmarthenshire
Constabulary
Your most obedient Servant
E. Hammond King
Superintendent
Carmarthenshire
Constabulary
Minutes by CO staff
Lord Carnarvon
Observe to this Gentleman that in telling him that his name wd be recorded on Sir E. Lytton's list of Candidates no assurance of an apptment was conveyed: & that Sir Edward regrets he has taken so premature a step as that of announcing his intention of resigning his present situation on the strength of a Letter which held out to him no promise of employment.
Observe to this Gentleman that in telling him that his name wd be recorded on Sir E. Lytton's list of Candidates no assurance of an apptment was conveyed: & that Sir Edward regrets he has taken so premature a step as that of announcing his intention of resigning his present situation on the strength of a Letter which held out to him no promise of employment.
ABd
26 July
Annex draft at once. We must in future be careful in such
letters to add a proviso that prevent[s] misapprehension.
C
July 27
