<persName ref="prs:ffarmer"><surname>Ffarmer</surname>, <forename>R.</forename> <forename>G.</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:fortescue"><surname>Fortescue</surname>, <forename>Chichester</forename></persName> 1862, CO 60:14, no. 2136, 366. Ffarmer addressee Fortescue (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)

Published by Jim Hendrickson and the University of Victoria.

Ffarmer, R. G. to Fortescue, Chichester 1862, CO 60:14, no. 2136, 366.The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.6, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B626F01.html. CO 60:14 CO 60 14 2136 366 B.C. 1862 received 28 February co_60_14_00367r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

The project glossary items have xml:id attributes beginning with trm_, and we use a trm: prefix to refer to them when linking from term elements.

We link to orgs in orgs/organizations.xml using the org: prefix.

We link to places in places.xml using the plc: prefix.

We link to people in bios/*.xml using the prs: prefix.

We link to vessels in vessels/*.xml using the vsl: prefix.

We link to other documents in the collection using the cdc: prefix.

The cdt (ColDesp Document Type) prefix used on catRef/target points to a central taxonomy in the includes file.

We link to other documents in the collection using the cdc: prefix.

Correspondence (private letter). Minutes (2), Other documents (1).

Ffarmer expresses interest in British Columbia's [gold] Diggings and asks Fortescue about travel to, and conditions in, the colony. Blackwood and Elliot minute that Ffarmer be directed to find answers to his questions in a number of commercially available publications.

Ffarmer, R. G.
5 Kent Villas [Asqburn Roads?] [Parkhouse?] S.E.
Fortescue, Chichester Inserted revisionDesc. Added abstract.
Ffarmer to Fortescue (Parliamentary Under-Secretary) 2136, CO 60/14, p. 366; received 28 February
5 Kent Villas [Asqburn Roads?] [Parkhouse?] S.E.
Sir,

Being about to visit British Columbia I have taken the liberty of writing to beg the favor of your giving me some little information with respect to that Colony. I trust that the circumstance of my going, and the interest I feel naturally in the Country in question will plead my apology for addressing you.

Could you kindly inform me if there is any means of conveyance from San Francisco to the Diggings at British Columbia, if provisions are obtainable & if the Climate is extremely cold or otherwise.

Your reply to Mr Caird of Thursday Evening, leaves no doubt of the large yield of gold to the miners.

With my respectful apologies for troubling you thus.

I have the honor To be, Sir, Yr. mo. ob. Servant R.G. Ffarmer C.F. Fortescue Esq M.P. &c &c
Mr Elliot I should recommend the writer to purchase the Parly correspce. It contains nearly all the informn he will require. The Colonization Circular & a little publication called "Copper's Emigration Circular," "British Columbia Price" wdwould help him considerably. The last is to be got at 60 Gracechurch St. ABd 1/3
Tell him of the Colonization Circular and of the other cheap publications, saying that he will probably find in them as much information as he will require, but that if he desires to acquaint himself more generally with the public affairs of B. Columbia and the progress of the Colony, it would be necessary for him to purchase of some Parliamentary Bookseller certain Blue Books which have been presented to the H. of Commons on the subject in the course of the last few Sessions.

Draft.

TFE 3/3
Fortescue to Ffarmer, 6 March 1862, advising where he might obtain information on British Columbia.