<persName ref="prs:newcastle"><surname>Pelham-Clinton</surname>, <forename>Henry</forename> <forename>Pelham</forename> <forename>Fiennes</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:kennedy_a"><surname>Kennedy</surname>, <forename>Arthur</forename></persName> 3 February 1864, NAC RG7:G8C/04, 25. Newcastle addressee Kennedy

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Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes to Kennedy, Arthur 3 February 1864, NAC RG7:G8C/04, 25.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/V647104.html. NAC RG7:G8C/04 NAC RG7 G8C/04 25 4 V.I. 1864 rg7_g8c_04_00016r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Despatch from London. Enclosures (untranscribed) (2).

Newcastle sends a letter, and its enclosure from Howard to Kennedy, regarding Douglas Pine, requesting that no more seeds or cones be sent to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests.

 Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes Kennedy, Arthur Added abstract. Inserted revisionDesc with @status="unproofed".
No. 4 NAC, RG7, G8C/04, p. 25 (CO 410/1, p. 450) 3rd February 1864 Sir,

With reference to your Predecessor's despatch No. 45 of the 3rd of November last I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a letter with its enclosure from the Honble Jas. R. Howard on the subject of the Douglas Pine, from which you will learn that it is not the wish of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests that anymore more seeds or cones should be collected for that office until the result of those recently sent home has been ascertained.

I have the honor to be Sir Your obedient servant Newcastle
Copy, Howard to Elliot, 22 January 1864, thanking the Colonial Office for the seeds but requesting that no more seeds be sent.
Copy, J.E. Nelson to L.H. Cumberbatch, 19 January 1864, reporting that the Douglas Fir cones "did not produce" the amount of seedlings expected.