Reep to Lytton

I am instructed by the Court of Directors of this Company to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated yesterday and to state in reply that it will afford them great pleasure, to carry out the wishes of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton with regard to the conveyance of a detachment of twenty Royal Engineers and an Officer from Panama to Vancouvers Island, and that every means in the power of the Directors will be taken to avoid delay in the transmission of the party to their destination.