Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Carnarvon, Earl to Seymour, Frederick 1 October 1866, NAC RG7:G8C/13, 293.
Abstract
Carnarvon, Earl to Seymour, Frederick 1 October 1866, NAC RG7:G8C/13, 293.
Despatch from London.
Other documents (1).
No. 12
1 October 1866
Sir,
I transmit, herewith, the copy of a letter from Mrs. M.A. Cooper
requesting to know to whom she should address an enquiry in Vancouver Island respecting a person, unnamed, who has recently died there.
I have to request that you will enable me to answer this enquiry.
I
I observe that no reply has been received to the Second paragraph
of my Predecessor's Despatch No. 38, of the 11th August 1865, asking
what assistance the local Authorities could render to persons in this
Country desirous of procuring information respecting the existence of
their relatives in Vancouver Island.
Other documents included in the file
Cooper to Lord Stanley, 30 August 1866, inquiring on the proper channels to receive information "respecting a person who
has died recently at Victoria."