Colonial Despatches

I beg to acknowledge with thanks your reply to my letter of the 13 Ult. addressed to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle for information respecting Vancouvers Island and also for the maps & surveyors report accompanying the same. The latter has afforded me much information that will prove valuable to me when in the colony. My present intention however being to settle in the district of Victoria or one of those adjoining thereto, may I ask without being considered troublesome to be favoured with maps of that part of the country & if possible also the surveyors report. I am reluctant thus to trouble you, but [my] intention is to leave this country if possible this month—and every bit of information will be to me of the greatest importance.