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Public Offices document
Briggs, J. H. to Monsell, William 26 January 1869, CO 60:37, no. 904, 8.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
Briggs transmits a copy of a letter from the Admiralty addressed to Hastings, expressing the Admiralty’s desire to make Valparaiso Hastings’s new Head Quarters…in the Pacific. Cox’s minute suggests sending the despatch to Seymour.
Briggs to Under-Secretary of State
Admiralty
26 January 1869
Sir,
I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of Earl Granville, copy of a letter they have addressed to Rear Adml The Honble G. Hastings, desiring him to make Valparaiso his future Head Quarters as Naval Commander in Chief in the Pacific, but to keep some of the ships under hisOrdersManuscript image Orders in the neighbourhood of British Columbia.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant
John Henry Briggs
Minutes by CO staff
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Sir F. Rogers
Copy to Govr Seymour for his information.
CC 20/1
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Missed you somehow.
CC
FR 1/2
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
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Briggs to Rear Admiral Hastings, 26 January 1869, directing him to proceed to Valparaiso.
Other documents included in the file
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Draft reply, Granville to Seymour, No. 9, 3 February 1869 transmitting Briggs's letter for Hastings, which discusses moving Hastings’s head quarters.