Waddington to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am directed by Viscount Palmerston to transmit to you the
accompanying copy of a Letter which has been received from Mr Henry
Bright suggesting the formation of a Penal Settlement at Vancouver's
Island. And I am to request that you will lay the same before the Duke of Newcastle and move His Grace to favor Lord Palmerston 
with any
observations which He may have to offer thereon.