Waddington to Buckingham

I have the honor to enclose you a copy of a letter which I have
brought with me from Mr Seymour, Governor of British Columbia;
in answer to which I requested him, October 12th and before
leaving, to forward you the necessary documents and particulars
for your perusal.

Since then I have visited Canada and Ottawa, when I had the
honor in December last to address the two Houses of Parliament
on the Overland question, and confer with the Governor General
and the Canadian Ministers on the subject. I have also visited
the Board of Directors of the Hudson's Bay Company here in
London at their request, and on Saturday I called on Mr
Robinson, one of Your Heads of Department, with whom I had a
long interview, and who advised me to communicate personally
with Your Grace on a subject of such public importance, and also
perhaps with the Commissioners on Emigration.

I beg therefore to request of Your Grace the favor of an
audience, and as I am to read a paper at the Geographical Society on Monday 9th Inst where the subject will come more or
less before the public, I take the liberty to mention the
circumstance, in case Your Grace should think it desirable to
see me before then.