London Correspondence Inward from Sir George Simpson, 1841-42

Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Record Company, 1973. First Edition. 212pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. A few small pieces of tape on the reverse of the jacket. Publications of Hudson's Bay Record Society Volume XXIX. All fold-outs present. "The volume prints in full the letters (but not the enclosures) Simpson sent, during his journey, to the Governor and Committee in their corprorate capacity as the London Committee, to Sir John Henry Pelly in his individual capacity as Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, and to Pelly and Andrew Colvile in their role as Agents of the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company. It contains, in short, all Simpson's general correspondence with London." - from the Preface (p.xi).