At the request of your Daughter in law 
Margret Annesborg
                     or Leary, I write to inform you that I have reason to believe
                     that 
Colonel Hawkins who had possession of your Son's money
                     of which he remitted one half to me for your son's widow, has
                     paid the other half into 
the Treasury of 
British Columbia, or
                     remitted to the Colonial Department Downing Street 
London.
                     
                     Your better course is to apply to the Secretary of State
                     for the Colonial Department, the 
Duke of Newcastle, and you
                     will obtain all needful information.