Memo, Barclay to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

Mr Barclay presents his Compliments to Mr Merivale and
begs to acknowledge the Receipt of his note of the 20th Instant,
accompanying a packet addressed to the Officer Administering the
Government of Vancouver's Island. The vessel by which the packet was to
have been forwarded, had it reached the Hudson's Bay House on time,
sailed from Gravesend early in the morning of the 20th, and as no
other vessel belonging to the Company will leave England for Vancouver's Island before the Month of October, Mr Barclay begs to be informed
whether Mr Merivale wishes it to be retained at the Hudson's Bay
House till then, or returned to the Colonial Office.

Hudson's Bay House

August 25th 1852