Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, James 17 December 1858, LAC RG7:G8C/6, 481.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Lytton requests Douglas to inform Captain Grant that he has authorized an additional £50 to defray travel expenses for Grant and his family.
No. 57
Downing Street,
17 December 1858
Sir,
I have to request that you will acquaint Captain Grant R.E. that
in consideration of the circumstances which he has represented to me in
a letter dated from Panama, the 15th
October,
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I have sanctioned the
payment to him of an additional sum of fifty pounds (£50) to defray the
expense of removing his family to British Columbia, and that the Lords
Commissoners of the Treasury have instructed the Paymaster General to
issue that amount to Messrs Cox & Co as Captain Grant's Agents.
payment to him of an additional sum of fifty pounds (£50) to defray the
expense of removing his family to British Columbia, and that the Lords
Commissoners of the Treasury have instructed the Paymaster General to
issue that amount to Messrs Cox & Co as Captain Grant's Agents.