<persName ref="prs:douglas_j"><surname>Douglas</surname>, <forename>James</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:grey_g"><surname>Grey</surname>, <forename>George</forename></persName> 29 September 1854, CO 305:5, no. 10699, 115. Douglas addressee Grey, Sir George

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Douglas, James to Grey, George 29 September 1854, CO 305:5, no. 10699, 115.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/V54038.html. CO 305:05 CO 305 5 10699 115 38 V.I. 1854 received 7 December co_305_05_00119r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Despatch to London. Minutes (1).

Douglas writes to Grey to acknowledge Newcastle’s correspondence on Paris’s Universal Exhibition of Agricultural and Manufacturing Produce, and the call for the Colonies to submit exhibits for the event.

The minutes ask that the contents of Douglas’s despatch be communicated to the Department of Science and Art.

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No. 38 10699, CO 305/5, p. 115; received 7 December
Victoria Vancouvers Island
29th September 1854 Sir

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a Circular Despatch from the Duke of Newcastle, dated the 29th of May last, transmitting copies of the Decrees, Regulations and Instructions under which His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, has directed that the Universal Exhibition of Agricultural and Manufacturing Produce shall be opened at Paris on the 1st of May 1855, and also copy of a communication addressed to His Grace bydirection direction of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, recommending certain steps which it is desirable should be adopted without delay, in order that the industry and resources of the Colonies should be duly represented at the Exhibition. And his Grace further directs that due publicity may be given to the project of this Exhibition, and that I should lend my influence to the formation of a Committee in this Colony for the purpose of securing every facility for the due representation of the Manufactures or Produce of the Colony, and I beg to assure you, that I shall attend to those instructions.

I have the honor to be Sir Your Grace's most obedient humble Servant James Douglas Governor To The Right Honorable Sir George Grey Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State For the Colonial Department
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