The Letter Of John McLoughlin From Fort Vancouver To The Governor And Committee - McLoughlin's Fort Vancouver Letters. Three Volumes. [Hudson's Bay Record Society]

Rich, E. E. Editor. Introduction by W. Kaye Lamb

London, 1941, 1943, 1944

By The Hudson's Bay Record Society
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Hardcovers, 6.5x9.75 in, [16.5x21.5 cm]. First Series. Copy 45 of a limited edition. cxxviii, 374 pp. Second Series. Copy 445. xlix, 427 pp. Third Series. Copy 44. lxiii, 341 pp.
Condition

Series One: largely uncut, scattered pencil annotations throughout. Foxing to the opening and closing leaves. Top edge lightly dust-stained. Covers with bumped and creased edges, staining, and general surface wear.

Second Series: scattered pencil annotations throughout; fore-edge corners bumped. Top edge lightly dust-stained. Covers bumped and creased, lower edge dented, lightly stained, with moderate surface wear.

Third Series: scattered pencil annotations throughout; mild staining to the rear endpaper; fore-edge corners bumped and creased. Top edge lightly dust-stained. Covers stained with moderate surface wear; fore-edge corners bumped and creased.
Notes


Collection of correspondence written by John McLoughlin, chief factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, to the Company’s Governor and Committee in London between 1825 and 1846. The letters document the administration of the Company’s Columbia Department and record conditions in the Pacific Northwest during the early nineteenth century. Topics include relations with Indigenous communities, interactions with Russian and American traders and settlers, agricultural development, missionary activity, management of fur resources, and the practical operations of transport, shipping, timber, and fisheries in the region.
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