Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 27 January 1858, CO 305:9, no. 882, 369.

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Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 27 January 1858, CO 305:9, no. 882, 369.

Abstract

Public Offices document. Minutes (2).

Hammond concurs, on behalf of the Foreign Office, with the plan to block any attempted emigration of Mormons from Utah into British territory in the Pacific Northwest.

The minutes forward the despatch to Douglas and note that the rumours of a Mormon attempt at colonisation in the region seem to acquire more consistency.

Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

Foreign Office

January 27, 1858

Sir,

I have laid before the Earl of Clarendon your Letter of the 22nd instant inclosing the Draft of a Despatch which Mr Secretary Labouchere proposed to address to the Governor of Vancouver's Island instructing him as to the course to be pursued in the event of an immigration of the Mormons from the Territory of Utah into British Territory on the North WestCoast

Coast of America; and I am directed by His Lordship to request that you will inform Mr Labouchere that he concurs in the terms of the proposed despatch to Governor Douglas.

I am, Sir,
Your most obedient humble
Servant
E. Hammond

H. Merivale Esqr.
&c &c