Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 28th of August
last,

I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you
herewith, for the information of Secretary Sir Edward Lytton
a copy of a Despatch from Mr Booker, Her Majesty's Consul
at San Francisco, stating that he had requested Captain Parsons
of the Royal Engineers to take charge of the Bag of Despatches
sent in August last to his care for the Governor of British Columbia.