Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Barfield, Samuel to Grenville, Richard 29 March 1867, CO 60:31, no. 3139, 186.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (5), Other documents (1).
Barfield inquires if Seymour has sent a reply to Barfield’s employers’ request for
Settlement of Koskeemoor if there is any relative information regarding settling Vancouver Island. Elliot’s and Jadis’s minutes discuss how long correspondence takes between England and British Columbia. Elliot further minutes instructions to inform Barfield that
4 Months are required for a despatch to be acknowledged, and further time…of course [is] necessary to inquire into any case upon which information is required.
Barfield to Buckingham
To His Grace The Duke of Buckingham Her Majestys Secretary of State for the Colonies
My Lord Duke
Referring to my letter of the 7th December last to the Earl
of Carnarvon, may I request the favor of being informed whether any
reply to his Lordship's Despatch to the Governor of Vancouver Island
on the subject of my communication has yet been received, and when it
will be in your Grace's power to afford me some information on behalf
of the parties interested in the Settlement of Koskeemo?
I have the honor to be
Your Grace's
Obedient and humble Servant
Saml Barfield
4 Plowden Buildings
Temple E.C.
29th March 1867
Your Grace's
Obedient and humble Servant
Saml Barfield
4 Plowden Buildings
Temple E.C.
29th March 1867
Minutes by CO staff
If (as I suppose) his expectation is unreasonable we had better
give him the means of knowing that it is so.
How long does it appear by our books that despatches take on an
average in going to B. Columbia & how long in coming home?
TFE
3/4
Mr Elliot
About seven weeks each way. The Desp: to the Govr left on the 15 Decr—so that if he had replied at once there is just time for an answer to have been received.
About seven weeks each way. The Desp: to the Govr left on the 15 Decr—so that if he had replied at once there is just time for an answer to have been received.
VJ
3 April
Acknowledge and say that no answer has been received to his
letter and that it is too soon to expect one. 4 Months are required
for a despatch to be acknowledged, and further time must of course be
necessary to inquire into any case upon which information is required.
TFE
3 April
