Seymour to Cardwell

Among the papers lost in the wreck of the steamer
"Brother Jonathan"

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would appear to have been an unofficial
letter from you directing me to communicate freely with the
Governor of Vancouver Island on the suggested union of the
two colonies west of the Rocky Mountains. You enclosed a copy
of this letter to Governor Kennedy, and the Vancouver Island
mail bag having been recovered, I thus became aware five
minutes before my departure from Victoria, of the contents of
a communication which has never reached me.

I learn that Mr Kennedy transmitted to you a copy of
an informal letter he addressed to me on the same subject;
a letter to which I had not, at the time of my departure from
Victoria, returned an answer. I have now the honor to lay
before you a copy of a hurried communication which I sent to
him from San Francisco in reply.

Although no definite scheme for the union of the two
colonies was proposed on either side, I am happy to say that
the relations which existed between the Governor of Vancouver
Island & myself were always of the most intimate and friendly nature.