No. 59, Miscellaneous

Referring to your despatch of the 7th July 1863, No. 30
upon the subject of due provision being made by Mr W.G. Cox
for the maintenance of his wife, I have the honor to acquaint
your Grace that Mr Cox has already made two remittances to his
wife, and I have received an acknowledgment from her of one of them.

2. I should earlier have addressed Your Grace upon this
subject, but the letters from Mr Cox upon it have not been
so definite as I could desire, not I believe from any
indisposition on his part to make proper provision for Mrs
Cox, but from a want of knowledge at the moment, in the distant part
where he is stationed, of how best to arrange for remittance.

3. I shall communicate the purpose of your Grace's present
despatch to him, and will furnish you with his reply.

4. I deem it however but just to Mr Cox to state that
so far as my knowledge of him goes since his first entry into
the public service here in Jany 1859 I have ever found him
a correct, honorable, and useful officer, somewhat unmethodical
in pure matters of business, but possessed of a peculiar talent
for commanding respect and esteem among a rough population.
Before being removed to Carribou, he was employed on the
frontier at "Rock Creek" and the quiet and order he maintained
there, were very satisfactory to me.