Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Barwise, Jackson to Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer 13 August 1858, CO 305:9, no. 8343, 546.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (3), Other documents (1).
The minutes copy Barwise’s letter to the Treasury.
Enclosed is a draft from Merivale to the Treasury forwarding a copy of the letter for consideration.
Barwise to Lytton
I would most respectfully submit for your polite consideration
the question of the transport of Her Majesty's Mails from San
Francisco, California, to Victoria Vancouver's Island, and from
thence to Fort Hope on the Fraser's River, New Caledonia.
Some gentlemen who are in conjunction with me will engage to lay
on large British built Steamers to carry the bimonthly mails,
which shall arrive and depart from her Majesty's Colonies of New
Caledonia, and Vancouver, in time to receive from, and deliver to,
the bimonthly Mails, arriving at, and departing from San
Francisco, via Panama; and would enter into a contractwith
with
Her Majesty's Post Master General for that service for a term
of years, should Her Majesty's Government think proper, and
would be willing also at a future time, to make arrangements for
the further distribution of the Postal communication in these
new Colonies.
with
Her Majesty's Post Master General for that service for a term
of years, should Her Majesty's Government think proper, and
would be willing also at a future time, to make arrangements for
the further distribution of the Postal communication in these
new Colonies.
100 Gresham House
Broad Street, City EC
l August 13th 1858
Broad Street, City EC
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Merivale
Copy to T-y with reference to the request made to them a fortnight or 3 weeks ago to take into their consideration the subject of a postal communication with B. Columbia.
Copy to T-y with reference to the request made to them a fortnight or 3 weeks ago to take into their consideration the subject of a postal communication with B. Columbia.
The writer is a most intelligent man.
ABd
17 Augt
Not, I think, to me. It is a subject
with which in the absence
of all combined action of departments the Treasury had better
deal. Refer to them? And inform Mr Barwise that we have so
referred. Annex drafts.
with which in the absence
of all combined action of departments the Treasury had better
deal. Refer to them? And inform Mr Barwise that we have so
referred. Annex drafts.
HM
Augt 20
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Merivale to Sir C. Trevelyan, Treasury, 26 August 1858,
forwarding copy of the letter for consideration.