Wood to Colonial Office
 

Sir,
Having heard that My husband (Captain Wood Royal Marines H.M.S. Ganges) has applied to you for an appointment in the Island of Vancouver would you Kindly inform me if there is any chance of his request being granted.
Trusting you will excuse Manuscript imagethe liberty I am taking in thus troubling you.
I am, Sir
Your's obediently
Kate Wood

3 Tavistock Place
Plumstead Common
Woolwich

l Thursday May 3rd
Minutes by CO staff
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No official Letter has arrived from Capn Wood.
Ask the Private Secretaries if they have seen any; & if not ansr accy.
ABd 7/5
Not with me.
AN Birch 9 Apl [May]
Not with me.
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Draft, Colonial Office to Wood, 14 May 1859, advising that no application had been received from Captain Wood.
People in this document

Birch, Arthur Nonus

Blackwood, Arthur Johnstone

Norris, Henry Charles

Wood, Charles B.

Wood, Kate

Organizations in this document

Colonial Office

Vessels in this document

HMS Ganges

Places in this document

Vancouver Island

Wood, Kate to Colonial Office 3 May 1859, CO 305:13, no. 4686, 296. 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/V596W03.html.

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