Fitzgerald to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 26th ultimo relative to
the claim of Governor Douglas on the United States' Government
for the repayment of a Sum of Money advanced by him in 1856 to
the Authorities of Washington Territory, I am directed by the
Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you for the information of
Secretary Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, a copy of a despatch from
Her Majesty's Minister at Washington reporting the steps he has
taken in the Matter of Mr Douglas' claim.