<persName ref="prs:boys"><surname>Boys</surname>, <forename>Thomas</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:pakington"><surname>Pakington</surname>, <forename>John</forename> <forename>Somerset</forename></persName> 30 September 1852, CO 305:3, no. 8996, 492. Boys addressee Pakington

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Boys, Thomas to Pakington, John Somerset 30 September 1852, CO 305:3, no. 8996, 492.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/V526B04.html. CO 305:03 CO 305 3 8996 492 V.I. 1852 received 1 October co_305_03_00501r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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

Boys informs Pakington of Staines’ correspondence with Boys on the discovery of Gold at Haida Gwaii, and that further information may be offered if the Colonial Office desires it.

The minutes suggest that Kuper’s report on gold at Haida Gwaii is more recent than Staines’s report, and therefore more useful.

This file encloses a draft reply to Boys which states that Pakington would be pleased to receive Staines’ account on gold found at Haida Gwaii.

 Boys, Thomas
52, Herbert Street Shepherdess Walk, Hoxton
Pakington, John Somerset Inserted revisionDesc with @status="proofed". Changed idno @type="received" into a date element. Gave existing date an @type="sent" and reordered bibl contents.
8996, CO 305/3, p. 492; received 1 October
52, Herbert Street Shepherdess Walk, Hoxton
Sep. 30, 1852 Sir John,

I have the honour to inform you that I have received a letter from my nephew the Rev. R.J. Staines, Chaplain of Victoria, Vancouver's Island, communicating various particulars respecting the discovery of gold in Queen Charlotte's Island, and detailing some transactions of a questionable character, which he regards as affecting the rights and interests of the British Crown. His letter is dated July 6.

Mr Staines has forwarded specimens of the gold by different hands for the inspection of the British Government. He has corresponded on the subject with H.B.M. Consul General of the Pacific, having been previously requested by that functionary to forward all attainable information respecting Queen Charlotte's Island and the adjacent coasts. He has also been in communication with H.B.M. Consul at San Francisco, and through him with the British Admiral, who, on receiving the particulars forwarded, dispatched H.M. Ship Thetis to Queen Charlotte's Island.

Under the impression, however, that his letter to me might possibly anticipate other communications, Mr Staines suggests the propriety of my taking measures to lay it before the Colonial Office. Should you be pleased to forward me any directions upon this subject, I should be happy to attend to them.

I have the honour to be, Sir John, Your most obedient humble Servant Thomas Boys, Incumbent of Holy Trinity, Hoxton The Right Honorable Sir John S. Pakington, Bart. &c. &c. &c.
Mr Merivale The information from Capn Kuper being more recent than the 6 July I almost think we might dispense with the communication which this Gentleman offers. But there is no harm in having too much intelligence & if you think it advisable that we should be furnished with what Mr Staines has to communicate a draft can be prepared accly. ABd 1 Oct
Annex draft, saying Sir J.P. will be obliged by the communication. HM O 2
Draft, Colonial Office to Boys, 9 October 1852, stating that Pakington would be pleased to receive the communication in question.