Confidential

This letter will be presented to you by Mr. Thomas L. Wood a Member
of the English Bar who is proceeding to B. Columbia for the purpose of settling there with his family.

I grant this introduction at the request of Mr. Lindsay M.P. who
informs me that Mr. Wood is going out with the intention of investing
his capital in the colony, and in the hope that with the return from it
and the practice of his profession he will do better than in this
country. I have no doubt that Mr. Wood will prove a valuable settler.