Bishop of London to Lytton

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your
communication of the 24th inst, enclosing a copy of a letter
addressed by the Revd W. Burton Crickmer to the Governor of
British Columbia, on his arrival in that Colony.

I send you herewith the form, (if not an exact copy) of the
License which according to the usual practice, I granted to Mr
Crickmer, on his being nominated and recommended to me by the
Colonial Church and School Society, as one of their Chaplains.

In the previous month (September) the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel applied to me, not for the usual license,
but for letters of introduction, for two of their Missionaries,
namely, the Revd J. Gammage and the Revd H. Dowson, to the
Governor of Vancouver's Island; of these informal credentials I find,
upon enquiry, that no copies were kept.

I shall regret if any misunderstanding has arisen from the
difference of form in which the two Societies desired that
the character of their Chaplains should be guaranteed by me, as being
at the time the only Bishop authorised to exercise ecclesiastical
jurisdiction within the Colony.

I beg to apologize for the delay which has taken place, before I
could answer your letter of the 24th inst owing to the necessity
of making search in the Register of the Diocese.