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Despatch from London
Carnarvon, Earl to Douglas, Sir James 2 June 1859, CO 410:1, 203.

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Carnarvon, Earl to Douglas, Sir James 2 June 1859, CO 410:1, 203.
Despatch from London.
1
No. 73
Downing Street
2 June 1859
Sir,
I transmit to you herewith the Copy of a letter from the Hudson's Bay Company and of the answer which I have caused to be returned to it respecting the employment of the Reverend Edward Cridge as Chaplain in Vancouver's Island. I have to request that you will submit to the decisions of the Legislature of the Island, the proposal of Mr Cridge to enter into a fresh agreement to act in this capacity.
I have etc.
Carnarvon
In the absence of Sir E.B. Lytton
Footnotes
  1. The original form of this correspondence can be viewed here. Please note that the original was marked initially as part of the Vancouver Island collection, and changed thereafter, presumably after receipt, to the British Columbia collection.
People in this document

Carnarvon, Earl

Cridge, Reverend Edward

Douglas, Sir James

Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer

Places in this document

Vancouver Island

Carnarvon, Earl to Douglas, Sir James 2 June 1859, CO 410:1, 203. 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/V597073.html.

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