Nesbitt to Granville

I beg again, very respectfully, to bring under Your Lordship's
notice the hardness of my case.

Four years have now passed by since His late Excellency,
Governor Seymour, sent me from Vancouver Island, with a Despatch
to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, recommending that I
should be appointed to some other office in the place of that
which I had lost through the Union of Vancouver Island with
British Columbia.

In taking the course which he did, His Excellency informed me
that the Earl of Carnarvon had authorized him to send home any
gentlemen whose claims were deserving of particular notice.

The delay that has occurred in my reappointment to office has
been very tedious to me, but, feeling satisfied that Your
Lordship has had little control over it, I have had faith that
sooner or later my wishes would be gratified.

Earnestly appealing to Your Lordship under the circumstances of
hardship and privation in which I have been placed during four
long years.