Willmett & Sons to Lytton

We beg respectfully to request of your Lordship information
respecting the Colony of Vancouvers Island. We have made ourselves
acquainted with all that the Books we possess are able to impart and
conceiving your Lordship to
be the proper source for information [we] beg to inquire on what
System or Plan land can be secured to us in [that] Colony. We beg to
state that we contemplate emigrating thither and that [we are] a large
family consisting of 4 Households and shall require [a] tolerable
Large Tract and prudence dictates that the required Land [should] be
ascertained to be good safe and secure in the first place.

Our Business is Ship Building and Repairing Ship Owning & general
Commerce [but] of course Agriculture and the requisite addenda would
be resorted to there [in] addition to our own Trade & whatever other
Business we find convenient or requisite [to do]. We should go out in
our own ship, taking with us all materials for all purposes we
conceive to be useful so far as our means will permit, and on receipt
of [the] required information from your Lordship (which we
respectfully beg you to excuse) [one] of our Party will proceed out
to Select a proper site and report.