Moody to Granville

It is so currently & confidently reported that Governor Seymour
has recently died at Victoria, that I venture—with the utmost
deference—to submit my name to you, offering my services as his
successor.

Naturally there will be many applicants tendering claims with
recommendations. On my own part I would only ask your Lordship
to consider my hearty devotion to the public service for many
years, and how much of it was in high office in the Colonial Department.

With respect to British Columbia I think I may submit that from
a variety of circumstances there are few who know the people of
that Colony and their interests better perhaps on the whole at
present, and few who would now have a better prospect of being
able to reconcile local disagreements and to remove an
irritating intensified and injurious dissatisfaction existing on
the part of a strong minority.

I believe also, judging from past experience there & in similar
positions—I would be found to possess some advantage in
encouraging the self-reliance of all.

I entered the Public Service in 1830 and am now Fifty Six years
of age, entirely unoccupied and free for any duty.

The Union of the two Colonies having been effected, and the Seat
of Government determined by the Colonists themselves there is
no question on which I at present entertain any special views
beyond perhaps the desirability of bringing about the
Confederation with the Dominion of Canada at the earliest possible date.

On this subject if your Lordship be disposed to examine me, I am
ready to submit my views based on facts of much weight.