<persName ref="prs:cardwell"><surname>Cardwell</surname>, <forename>Edward</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:seymour_f"><surname>Seymour</surname>, <forename>Frederick</forename></persName> 14 March 1865, NAC RG7:G8C/12, 100. Cardwell addressee Seymour

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Cardwell, Edward to Seymour, Frederick 14 March 1865, NAC RG7:G8C/12, 100.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/B657014.html. NAC RG7:G8C/12 NAC RG7 G8C/12 100 14 B.C. 1865 rg7_g8c_12_00101r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Cardwell requests that Seymour enquire after the fate of Captain Venables, who disappeared suddenly from New Westminster and whose family believes that he may have met with some violent death in British Columbia, or possibly may still be alive in the hands of the Indians.

 Cardwell, Edward
Downing Street
Seymour, Frederick Inserted revisionDesc with @status="unproofed". Added abstract. Written by Josiah Snell.
No. 14 NAC, RG7, G8C/12, p. 100 (CO 398/2, p. 302)
Downing Street
14th March 1865 Sir,

I have recently received an enquiry relative to the fate of Captain Venables who is represented to have disappeared suddenly from New Westminster, it is supposed about the month of August last.

His relatives are very anxious to obtain tidings of his fate; they fear that he may have met with some violentdeath death in British Columbia, or possibly may still be alive in the hands of the Indians.

I have to request that you will cause enquiries to be made in the Colony, and that you will furnish me with any information on the subject which you may be able to obtain.

I have the honor to be Sir, Your obedient servant Edward Cardwell Governor Seymour