Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to my letter of the 31st of August I am directed
by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be laid before
Secretary Sir George Grey, a copy of a despatch from Her
Majesty's Charg e d'affaires at Washington containing the reply
of the United States Secretary of State to a note which Mr
Griffith addressed to him urging the importance of settling the
Boundary between Vancouver's Island and the United States.