Colonial Despatches

Willmett and Sons was a ship building and repairing & general commerce business that also engaged in agriculture. In the correspondence between the company and Lytton, Willmett and Sons requested land in the colony of Vancouver Island which would be large enough for their business purposes.1

• 1. Willmett and Sons to Lytton, 10 February 1859, CO 205/13, 1505, p.293.