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CONFIDENTIAL. 
 
 Ottawa, Ont., January 7th, 1872. 
 
 Gentlemen : — 
 
 The necessity is entailed upon me, of enclosing you the accompanying 
 correspondence between the Manai>'ing Director representing your interests 
 in Canada, Mr C. J. Brydi^es, and myself. My ol)jectin doinnf iso is tolay 
 before you the grounds, on which I complain of injustice ex])erienced at his 
 hands, and his causeless neglect of ordinary courtesy in my demand 
 for fair treatment. 
 
 I have detailed my case so fully in my letter of S^Hh. October, that 
 I will not here enter into it, more than to say that I have performed 
 })rofessioiial work for the Cirrand Trunk llailway Company by his instruc- 
 tions; work admitted to be satisfactory for which he declines to pay, although 
 he has accei)ted and utilized my labor. At the same time he has left my 
 letters unanswered, and my claim has been treated by him as unworthy 
 )he least attention : while my oiler to sul)mit the difTerence to the deeisiou 
 of a common IVicnd has never received the slightest comment. Indeed, the 
 only notice worthy remark which he has taken of my claim for redress is 
 to be found in an assertion, which in two letters I pointedly contradict 
 without, rejoinder from him. 
 
 Being aware that the tax of readinij M.S. st:jtements is severely fell by 
 public men, prominently belbre the world, I have caused this correspond- 
 
 • Mice to b(^ confidentially printed. I bog leave respectfully to su])mit it to 
 t'nchof you in this form, so that my position may be understood, by as little 
 t'llbrt as possible on your part. 
 
 Friends here, whom 1 have consulted on the subject sugu'est that my 
 application may be received by you as one of those matters, in which as a 
 principle you decline to interfere, and that it is possible yon may refer me 
 to the law of this countiy for redress. 
 
 I cannot brinu' myself to think that you will so rei)ly to me. For 
 ihere is a distinct element in this matter, beyond the assertt^d injustice to 
 myself and tli" refusal to entertain my claim. 
 
 I mean the attitude of Mr. Brydges, unnecessary and inexplicable, 
 except by the satisfaction he feels in the alfectation of a position above the 
 nt'ccssity of explanation, and alike uncontrolled by the laws of ordinary 
 decorum. An assum|)tion of superiority, I can in no way concede to Mr. 
 Brydges. however great the patronage his official position gives him, 
 and however large the fortune he may have accumulated from the oppor- 
 la^inities he lias possessed. 
 
 I ventur(! to think my own letters respectfully written. I declare 
 em to be truthful, and, to my own mind, the tone of them calls for a reply 
 o_i,u any riii'ht feeliny- num in any circumstance. But the oflicial repre- 
 .eniinu- alai'ue Corporation, and a Corporation so delicately situated with 
 li'gard to the Dominion as the Orand Trunk Company, as a consequence of 
 his position, is bound never to bt! deficient in conciliatory manners and 
 <ourtesy. Among these inseparable requisites for oilicial life the rule is 
 paramount that every communication should be acknowledged, and its 
 ■contents considered in a reasonable period of timi\ The principle of 
 
 • 'xacting courtesy and civility is recognized fully in the humbler servants 
 of the Company by the Company's notice to the public, asking the sufferer 
 from rudeness to make the fact known. With how much greater force 
 tnust the rttle apply to the highest representative of the English Directory. 
 A ride which prescribes a line of conduct suggested equally by 
 self-respect, and exacted by public duty. It is this point I 
 place in prominence, when respectfully I direct your attention to 
 the extent my letters have been left without notice. A neglect I should 
 define as suggestive of supercilious inditt'erence, except from my conviction 
 rhat they are found unanswerable by Mr. Brydges. For when curtly 
 noticing what I write he does not meet a single allegation I make, ordeal 
 tvithone fact, I advance. On tho other hand the tone of his letters, is that 
 
 
of ono miui granting- a i'avor to unothor. He speaks in oik^ caso of havin<T- 
 read my letter, "notwithstanding' its leiiyth," so condescendiiiiily that one. 
 would co/iei'ive tluit tht^ ])ernsal of olliciai corr(\spondonce has bi-iMi excist-d 
 from th(! obligations of a Managing" Director out of England. 
 
 Judging l)y his letters, which follow, it is not dilHcult to understand 
 that any literary exercise is an eilbrt on his part, l^^or they are without 
 argument, at variance with fact, marked by the repetition of the one weak 
 idea that I cannot hold him to be illiberal for paying me in excess of my 
 original demand, ignoring my explicit denial of the so-called fact ; and 
 further adding what is simply untrue, that he was led to employ me, by a 
 conversation, which, in point of fact, did not take place until long alter the 
 work had been executed, a statement which I hare in two letters affirmed 
 to b'^ contrary to fact without contradiction irom him. 
 
 I submit accordingly that Mr. Ih-ydges has acted with great injustice 
 to me in perfect defiance of the courtesies and duties of his position, and of 
 ordinary lile. A line of conduct which 1 am surt? individually as gentlemen 
 you can never approve. And as a man guiding the vast interests entrusted 
 to you, you must perceive that if persevered in, must be hurtful to those 
 interests. 
 
 I ask therefore at your hands the justice and consideration, which I\Ir. 
 Brydges refuses me, and that you will be good enough to give instructions 
 for my case to b(! examined, and so to ascertain, wln>ther, needlessly, aiid 
 without good cause, I have brought this matter belbre you, or whether I 
 have ground of complaint, and to deal with me in such manner as tht; 
 result of the enquiry will shew to be right. 
 
 I court the fullest investigation, and I am prepared to submit to an 
 examination upon oath before any Commissioner you may name. 
 
 I deeply regret thus to be forced to intrude upon your time and 
 attention, and it is solely irom the impossibility of obtaining satisl'action in 
 Canada, that I address you, urged by the hopt,' that you will extend m*; 
 that justice, which, hitherto, has been the high characteristic of the right 
 feeling portion of English life. 
 
 I am, 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 Your very obedient servant. 
 
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 Richard Potter, Esq., President, 
 Thomas Baring, Esq., M. P, 
 Egbert Gillespie, Esq. 
 Grosvenor Hodgkinson, Esq., M.P. 
 Graham Menzies, Esq. 
 John Swift, Esq. 
 Capter Tyler, R. E. 
 Lord Wolverton. 
 
 WILLIAM KINGSFOb'D, 
 
 Engineer, 
 
 I enclose by this post a copy of the printed correspondence to Mr 
 Manager Director Brydges. 
 
CORKESPOISrDEISrCE. 
 
 Ottawa, Moi^day, 30th October, 1871. 
 
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 Thirty days having elapsed since the date of my last letter, i can only 
 surmise that it will experience the treatment meted owt to my former 
 coniinunications, that it is fated to remain without notice ; and that your 
 note to Mr. * in which you decline to refer our difference to a common 
 friend — by hiui comniunicaied to me — is intended on your part to close the 
 correspondence. 1 cannot accept any such conclusion. It is true that you 
 are all powerful as tln> holder of your present position must ever be. I 
 am the rever.se; ])ut althouiih possessing only my education and my repu- 
 tation for integrity and iid(4ity to my engagements, I cannot submit to in- 
 justice even from nm backed by the influence which you possess. But 
 i'urther than this, my respect for the good opinion of my friends, and the 
 ctdtiis I am to hold will not for a moment permit me to occupy the false 
 position you seem willing to assign me. I am compelled therefore to 
 review the whole circumstances of my relations with you in this matter, 
 and I must do so with plainness. 
 
 Early in the present year, I was engaged by you to examine the 
 various Kailway lines projected been Montreal and Ottawa, to report as far 
 as pos.sible reronnaisxance estimates of the cost, with the length, and the differ- 
 ent features of each line. During my examination I kept you au coiirantofTaj 
 observaiious, and duly supplied you in ^'ull with what information came 
 under my notice. In a conversation with you at Ottawa on my return as 
 1o the general resiilis of my examination, you ordered a further examina- 
 tion to the east of the Coteau Rapids ; a proceeding caused by the feeling 
 of Montreal, jealousy alive to the possibility of any diversion of the com- 
 merce of the (.'ity. 
 
 AVhile so engaged I saw that a map was essential, and by letter I 
 proposcnl to you to purchase two published maps. I have no copy of what 
 I wrote, but I menliom'd the cost at $15, upon which you telegraphed to 
 ine, " you had better .get the maps." AVhat I then proposed was to take 
 two printed maps and place them side by side, by which means you would 
 liave ol)tained the country from Ottawa to the Province line. Indeed so 
 indispensable to you did I consider the possession of maps to be that, 
 although I was in no way bound to furnish a map at all, I made a com- 
 piiatioir of the printed sheets, obtained specially from the Crown Land 
 < )ilice, v^uel^ec, to obtain a tolerably fair map of the North Shore of the 
 Ottawa. AVhile on the South Shore, I gave you a tracing of the portion 
 traversed l)y lire Cedar arrd Laircaster lines, taken from the printed maps 
 to the I'roviirce line, tire distance in [the Province oi] Quebec to the Cedars 
 beiirti- based on such iirformation as I could hunt up. 
 
 Wh(>n I atteirded you at Montreal with my Report you were much 
 pressed by business. All the time at your disposal to give me was one 
 hour. In this limited period I went through the complicated subject, with 
 which I had to deal. My work met with your approval, and you increased 
 the fee agreed upon in the first instance, when I pointed out that I had 
 exceeded the work stipulated by an additional examination below Coteau 
 Landing. 
 
 It was during this meeting that I brought up the subject of the Map, 
 which I pointed out to you was exceedingly necessary, as it seemed to me 
 that without it you would be ill prepared to meet the argumcMits forced on 
 your notice. Of th(> maps, Avithin reach, there were none on which you 
 •could rely, and my own traciirg east of the Province Hire, before referred 
 to, was a mere apergii of little value, beyond the purpose for which it was 
 mnde. It was precisely at this spot that you ireeded reliable information. 
 And I dislinctly pointed out, that you wanted something very different to 
 
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 that which I first pvoposod to ^ivo yoii ; and that any map to Ije ol' vahie 
 would loquivo much lal)or, and woukl entail soiiu; t'xpcD.sd. You re])li('d, 
 " iJo what you consider to l)o nct'cssary, and 1 will ho happy to pay your 
 chari>'c." ^'o far as my memory servos lue, I re])eat the precisi; words you 
 used. 
 
 As in the examination which 1 had just completed, I had had mric hiatichc 
 to work as 1 saw lit, and hiid done so to your satisfaction. So in what 
 remained to he d(^m', it was imperative on nu> to act according to my 
 Judi^Tnent, to compile as best as 1 coixld all avaih'.hJ;; inrormatioii oi' the 
 territory in qut-stion. 
 
 Accordiiii^dy at once I entered on this duty, and threw aside every 
 private! ])ursuit, and every otlun- occupation, until I had linished it. Mv 
 desire was to make my work as satisl'actory as possihle. It comi)rises tin; 
 country I'rom heyond the IJrockville and Ottawa Railway, with its hranch 
 to Perth, to Montreal, extiMidinii,' to the south to i\n\ St. Lawrence and the 
 boundary line l)elween the I'uited Stal(^s and tlie Dominion and end)races 
 every item of railway information within thnt distnnce. l-'rom tlie cir- 
 cumstance thrt. -JO years a<»'o 1 located the (J-rand Trunk Kail way from 
 Montreal to C\)i'uwiill, and that when enji'au'ed in this duty. J had to make 
 elahorate surveys of tile hkisin extendinu' from Ste. .\nns" and A'lindreuil 
 on one side to lie aux Tourtes on tlie other ; and moreover haviny seven- 
 teen years ai;-o located a line from Vandreuil to ()l*:a\va, \ had inlormatiou 
 at my command which no other possr'ssed. And althouiih .M. De lieaujeu, 
 the proprietor of the Seiu'neurial lands throuii'h the whole extent of country 
 a fleeted iu the Province of (Quebec, before that time had eonstantlv 
 declined to allow copies to b(> taken of his SeiMneurial Maps, he did so in 
 this case at my express solicitation, and even then, he would only allow 
 me access to them at his house, where he was ^-ood euou^'h to I'eceivt^ me 
 for three or four days, bv Avhich lU'ans I was enabled to ac(|uire the data 
 necessary to the map I prepared for you. In my humble judu'miMit, it was 
 most advisable to get the lots in these Seii>-ne\irii>s corn^ctly establisiied, 
 especially with reg-ard to the line from the ('edars to the Xorth AVest. 
 
 While the ma[) was in pros;; ess I saw you on threi> dill'erent occasions, 
 and on ouk) of these meetiiu:s L remai'ked that I was aware that parlies 
 interested in the various liiu's were anxious to obtain your iniluence, but 
 that my endeavor was to place you totally independent of them, and that 
 when such visitors came they would lind from the information at your 
 disposal that you were far better [)repared than they to s[)eak upon the 
 question. 
 
 Once I saw you on the line, once at Coteau Landinn", and once 
 at Montreal. On the latter occasion, I submitted the title afterwards 
 plac'd on the map, and it met your appr(»val. Neverth<>less you never 
 su!4'i>'ested that there was any [)rol)ahility of my labors 1>einu' in excess of 
 your requirement, or that you considered you were uiidt" an enu-au,'(Muent 
 with me to pay uk; fifteen dollars only for what I was doing'. Rathi'r your 
 manner encouraged iik^ to effort ; and 1 had no r(;ason to consich'r that in 
 the place of reward, comnieii'lation, and the gratilication of knowing that 
 I had satisliiMl those, for whom 1 was lal)orinii', I was to expeiaeiice the 
 refusal of what is my due. a want of the consideration to which I can 
 justly lay claim, and even jjositive contumely. 
 
 AVheii my work was completiMl I forwarded it with a letter, stating 
 the number of days 1 had labored on it. and the several sources 
 whence it was taken, and I expressed my readiness to meet your views a,s 
 to the amount of ])aynient, to be made me. A concession on my part (>f 
 course limited by reason and jiistice. This hotter has remained without 
 ackuowltHlgment until this hour. 
 
 Failing to hear from you, I teleu'rajihed you. and on receiving a noti- 
 iication that you were u'oing to Brockville, on a givcMi day, 1 passenl to 
 Prescotc by I^ailway to m"et you. It is the last personal interA'iew I had 
 with you, and no one could be more Iriendly than you were on that 
 occasion. Th(> limit of our intervii'w was th(> period of the ])assage be- 
 tween Proscott and Brockville, during which I (Uitered into th(> various 
 circumstances connected with the map. Not the slightest hint was thrown 
 out by you that you considered it c ntained an excess of detail. You in 
 no way criticized the cost, on tin* contrary you exjiressed yourselfperfectjy 
 satisfied with the map itself, and promised to send me my fees so soon as 
 you could otiicially pass my account through the usual course. 
 
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 worked upon it from the 20th April to the ITih .lunc, from six 
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 olleriui"- mo as you do '^\iiO, and my disbursements having- bt'cu $»iS, I have 
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 place upon my w^ork is at this moment below, what a laboiini;- man is 
 rocoivinu; at Ottawa. It is dilhcult to write of one's sell', but I may say 
 that after thirty years of professional life, in responsible positions, and not 
 without reputation both in connection with the important works on whi<;h 
 I have been eni«-a!:?ed, and as a public writer, 1 may h)ok with surprise that 
 I should be sul)jected to such an unwarrantabh^ estimate of my services. 
 Moreover, I made sacrilicos to fullil my eni^ai^ement with you, lor such I 
 held my position to be, and I allowed imp(»rtant opportunities to be passed 
 by in Ontario that [ mi<4'ht carry tliroun'h tht^ work 1 had undertaken. Had 
 I had the least idea that 1 coukl have be(>n absolved from it, I should 
 immediately have applied to you to release me. 
 
 Ten days passed without any communication from you, and I to'e- 
 o-vaphod and wrote to you. But my letter and my teleu'ram were; 
 unacknowledii'ed. Consequently, I sent my son to .Montreal, and on 
 his proceediuii" to Point St. Charles, he saw the chief of your own depart- 
 mental ollice, who i>'ave him $bjO, with the remark that that amount had 
 been left by your orders for me, and that his duty was simply to pay it, as 
 he was not acquainted with any circumstances in connection with your 
 transactions with me. 
 
 On the receipt of this sum, I wrote you. My letter dated l-'Uh July 
 was contained on half a sheet of paper, but you not only allowed it to remain 
 without acknowhHli>'ement for forty days, but in a letter to me dated •2'2nd 
 Auu'ust, you actually tell me that you had not had time until then even to 
 read it. Even then, the few words it contained constitute no answer to 
 what I had written. You tell me that my map is a " duplication " [sir] and 
 that as you paid me ten times in excess of ray own estimate, I cannot 
 think you illiberal. I replied a: once that the map is not a duplicate, but 
 an original document prepared according to your instructions, and I ask 
 you if you think my demand excessive to name the sum you do consider 
 reasonable, so that I might meet your views. This letter with the others 
 remains without notice. 
 
 Being in Montreal I took the liberty of applying to Mr. Wainwright, 
 the chief of the Managing Director's Bureau, to bring my letter under your 
 notice, lie courteously consented to do so, and that same oveuinii-, I 
 received a letter from him to the effect that you could not increase the amount 
 paid me ; not one word of argument or explanation being yiven as to the 
 ground on which you came to this decision. The following day, I re])li(Hl 
 to Mr. "Wainwright's letter asking him to lay before you the proposition that 
 our dillerences should be su.bmitted to a common friend. That letter 
 remains without reply. And when in the b(\ginning of this month, with 
 the permission of a gentleman of the highest social position, I proposed 
 his name ; in itself a guarantee that as arbitrator between us, he would 
 be guided solely by the lacts and justice of the case, you leave thai letter 
 unansw^ered, and you simply write to auotluu' friend, that you decline any 
 such arbitration, on the ground that " you had agreed with me lor a price 
 and had overpaid me " 
 
 Technically, so far as the published maps go, you have paid me more 
 than I estimated the cost of them w^ould be. But the facts warrant no 
 such assertion on your part. Even before I commenced you distinctly 
 instructed me to proceed in this work, as I saw necessary. Three times 
 during the period I was engaged upon it, I met you and explained what 
 I w^as doing, without comment on your part. The very title of the new^ 
 map was ajiproved by you, and you admit the usefulness of the map I 
 have given you. You have written me only one letter forty days after 
 the receipt of one from me brief to a degree, and in no way meeting the 
 argument I advance. The sole assertion you make is, that you have paid 
 more than you agreed to pay, which I deny. You do not attempt to deal 
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 r)(l(liiys, 111 .^12— Si.TL'. 
 
 Uislnirsciiii'iits, suy— $732; called hr iiif $~M. 
 
6 
 
 (■ with tho fact, that you fiiivt' iiii' ((trlf bhinrhc to coinph'tti such a map ns 
 J would UKH't tlu' fnu'ryt'iicy ol' llif hour, U'livini;' iu ray hiuuls tho duty of 
 , putiui'' in form th»! nc 
 
 I'l'SMiry iiilonnation, luul tho oxtcut of {\u\ in forma- 
 
 j tiun to 1)0 compilod, and that I havo inado you an olahorato map of tho luhor 
 
 of couipilin'4' vvhi(di yi>u oaniiot bo ii^norant. Novortholoss you iu'uortuny 
 
 j claim to he paid for it ; hut ('\K^n whou you decliiu^ to pay for my labor, you 
 
 . havo accoptod and utilized my work. 
 
 Thero aroinany icasons why a man in your position should act jiistly 
 to a man iu miuo. Il I i)roposod au oxponssivt; aiul todious arbitration, 
 thoro niii-'ht bo somo armuru'ut why such a proposition should not bo ontor- 
 tainod. Ihit my dosiro is to submit to a common frieiul u statemont on 
 l»oih sides, and by this simphnnachinory that a decision bt> mado. 
 
 Such a solution, howovor, you uuhosilatingly docliuo, donyinu" mo all jus- 
 tice or satisfaction. 01 all persons in tho Dominion, the leadinu' Canadian (Irand 
 Trunkoliicial, in my humble Judi>'ment, should bo tho last to take this tone. 
 The Comi)any is at this moment iiulebtod to tlu^ (.'ommonw(>alth twenty live* 
 millions of dollars for monetary assistance, durint;' its troubled and not 
 fortunate carcjer, and it nuiy yet again liave to appeal to public sympathy. 
 I am sure that thx I'hu^-lish shareholders are desirous that tluj humblest 
 • 'ilizon of the idminion shall receive justice aiul civility, at tho hands of 
 their oliioials. II' this be not the case we have built up a power stronger 
 than tho Stnto, to destroy those who come in contact with it. It nuiy be 
 easy in cases analogous to mine to point to the law as a remedy. But it is 
 a dangerous and uncertain one ; and an iinlividual, alone and unaided, only 
 enters into an unequal contest with the representative of a powerful 
 Corporation, who has at his commaiul all the organized appliances to enter 
 a Court of Law. And if the country has extend(!d its assistance so bountifidly 
 to this Company, it is with the conviction that tho h]nglish stoekholdtu" 
 desires to avoid (^ven a semblance of wrong, and would Ix^ the last, as a 
 principle of conduct, arrogantly to reject overtures of arrang<nnent, ten- 
 ilored honestly and in good faith. 
 
 Then .is to the personal element. On your side as I said before, you 
 are all powerful. I have my mere individual right of solf-us.'sertion. If 1 be 
 wrong, what would be easier than to ostalilish the fact. And I must 
 distiivctly say that for yoii to acknowledge no law beyond your, own 
 arbitrary determination " sic volo, sic jubeo " to deny me every redress, to 
 leave my letters unansw^ered, to in.sist solely on your own view of my 
 position, and to refuse the ordinary course of adjustment I propose — is 
 sometiiing more than tho use of power — it is its abuse. 
 
 In spite of what has passed, I yet otter to submit the question between 
 us to the (h^cision of a third party. 
 
 Ihit I have this further to add, and I write the words with reluctance, 
 even though they bo forced upon me by yourself, that if you do not see lit 
 within fourteen days to notil'y me that you accept this proposition, I shall 
 s-'nd our correspondence to the I'resident and Directors in London, and 
 app;jal to tliem for that justice which \o\\ so persistently refuse my. 
 
 I am. 
 
 Sir. 
 
 Yoirr obedient servant, 
 
 AVILLIAM KINGSFORD, 
 
 Engineer. 
 
 ^'II;,- 
 
 De.'VU Sir,- 
 
 Gii.\XD Trunk Raitavay of Canad.\ ) 
 
 Managing Directors Offiok, ^ 
 
 AT QuEiJEO, 2nd Nov., 1871. ) 
 
 T have your letter of the 30th ult., and notwithstanding its length, have 
 read it carefully through. 
 
 I accepted your own otter of service, in regard to the matter, from the 
 beginninti-, i'rom a desire to aid you, under the circumstances which you, 
 yourself detailed to me, more than from any other consideration. I was 
 
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 ll sh;ill 
 
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 111 you, 
 I was 
 
 yliul to <j;oi th<^ inlovmatiou which you have liivcii me, for which I paid you 
 inort' thau you ever asked me to pay, vvhtiii tlie aiT;iiiireiaent was entered 
 into between i;s. I have endeavored, and helieve I have KUeoeedod, in 
 treatini? you with lull liberality, to leave out any (pie.stion, whatever of 
 Justice. 
 
 I have already replied thro\ii>h a I'riend, whom you asked to write to 
 me, and have explained tf) him iully my views upon the subject. 
 
 After rcadinL-' the closinL"- paragraph of your li'tter, 1 certainly cannot, 
 under any circumslanceH, consent to do, under a threat, that which I am 
 always prepared to do upon the merits of the case, as far as I understand 
 them. 
 
 I can only, therefore, further add that you are at entire liberty to write 
 to any person upon th(> subject thai you may tliiidv desirable. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 C. J. IJKYDGES. 
 AV. KiNOSFORi), Esq., C. E., ) 
 Ottawa. j 
 
 * 
 
 Copy of the private note from the personal friend of Mr. Kingsford before alluded lo. 
 
 October 10. 
 
 I (ll) iidt know wliithrr you hiivi' rcpilvoil any roply fri:ii\ Mr. Hiydgos or no), but iis ln' iniiy pcrliiips 
 ixincl, inc ll) iiiuviy lilH ((••iirniiuiiilon lo yon, 1 think li iis well lo li t yon kn<iw tliiit lie 1ms wilttfii U) nio 
 tddi'olino thii proi (iscd iii'liUiiillon. Ho siiys Uiiil ho u^i'cod Willi yon IWr ii price , iinJ has oviTiuikl yon. Tlio 
 ■■iiiiic statcniinl which ^on told nu' hi; niiidi; loyou. 
 
 raUlil'ully yonirt 
 
 roTlTACiE Y)V 1m)1;T, ON THE OTTAWA, 
 
 Tlh November, 1871. 
 
 .^'11!,- 
 
 I received last night at this place your letter dated Quebec, 2nd Nov., 
 in acknowle(l<>iuent of my communication of the oOth ult. I endeavoured 
 in that communication correctly to state the case at issue between us. I 
 bei>' leave to refer you to it, that you may observe that there is no question 
 at all on my part of my rer.onnoismnce report, for which jis you say you did 
 l)ay me in addition to the fee ai^'reed upon, under the circiimstances 
 there detaih^d. The x>i'''sent ditiereiice of view is coniined to the map on 
 which I labored (say) 500 hours, for which I have received a sum at the 
 rate of 14 cents an hour; and hence 1 claim additional payment for my 
 work in accordance wnth liu,'ures furnished you. Your memory is also at 
 fault with regard to the "circumstances'" of which you speak as havini;: 
 biH'U detailed by me, and which inlluenccd you to cniiage me. No mention 
 was made of them in any way, uiilil llu' interview with you between 
 I'rescott and Urockville, alter the mai) was liiuslu'd. 
 
 As you hint at these '• circumstances,"' it is perluips best tliat I state 
 them plainly. 1 said that my contract for the llussell drainag-e had 
 entailed and woiald entail loss ui^on me, yel ihat I must linish it; and that 
 at the piu'iod, I staited on the reromioisiuu-e. I had j)aid away every dollar 
 f-had to meet my obligations, consof[a('iitly thi> receipt of the fee from you 
 at the time it came was of the greatest benelit to me. And I then assiu'iied 
 these " circumstances " as a reason wliy i tioubled you about tlie fees of 
 my map, a work totally distinct from the report, although growing out 
 of it, and 1 still venture to think indispiMisabh; to you. 
 
 In your letter of the 2nd you make nc* allusion to what I must repeat 
 here ; that I claim to have been distiiuJiy instructed by you to compile this 
 map, as 1 saw necessary; and that although 1 met you on three diiierent 
 occasions during the time 1 was emzaged on it, no expiessions fell from 
 you to lead me to think that you had anv limited views regarding it, 
 accordingly I worked in perfect good laith. Therefore I must dis])ute 
 the correctness of your rcnnark that you havi> i>aid me more than I asked, 
 and \o\\\' reply to my friend Mr '*, as communicated to me, is conhned to 
 the abov(> assertion which I refuse to admit. 
 
 There has certainly been no desirt> on my part to introduce any 
 unpleasantness into our relations. On the contrary, tht^ mere sellish 
 consideration of the power, and the pntronaijre you possess is in itself with 
 the majority of men reason sulh'nent for the opposite line of conduct. 
 
Iii(1(mm1. it is iiUviiyw tt mutter of positive pain Hur lue to !)(> forced into 
 iiiikiiidly st'iitiiiii'iits towiivds others, however slight my coiniiM^tioii \vilh 
 them. I am the more yiieved wlieii the antagonism arises with those 
 with whom 1 have somewhat closely acted ; hnt however stioni,' tiiis 
 leclinii', it is siil)ordinMte to a sense of wron<,c, and when I enteitain the 
 thonufiit liiiit I have n(»t Keen treated I'airly, it seemed to me, better to siiy 
 soin aslraiyhtl'orward oulsi)oUen way, in preference to writhiny in silence 
 and Neekini> a mean and nnworthy reparation ol'it. 
 
 At the sanu> tinie 1 nnist admit that my nnrntion of an appeal to tho 
 Home hirceloiy, as yon remarii, to scnne extent partakes of the cliaraetfr 
 of a "threat." Von must, however, rmneniher, that from my standing- 
 point, it was tlie liisl resource h'lt me — and accepted with e<|ual nductaiiee 
 and dislike. 
 
 The t(?ni])erate lani,''ua!i'e of your letter in reply to these words nudces 
 Me wiiliut;' to hope that you may yet he prepared to a.(;t on the merits of 
 the case; 1 irusi my desire to avoid further dillituUty may not all'ec-t mv 
 judii'ment. l)Ul 1 I'eel it my duty not to ni^^lect any possibility of an accom- 
 niodiilioii, a(;cordini;ly 1 luive to say that it you will nu'et my views for an 
 adjustment of our dill'ereiKie, fair and honora hie to us both, 1 will with- 
 draw those expressions of my letter which 1 am afraid I must admit you 
 cannot but hold to be unusual. 
 
 All 1 ask is justice. 
 
 1 am, Sir, 
 
 Your ol)cdient servant, 
 
 WILLIAM KINGSKORD. 
 ( Unarknuirledgcd,) 
 
 I 
 
 Sll£, - 
 
 Ott.vwa, 14th Dec, 1871. 
 
 My lei tor to you of tin? 7th Novembor from Portage-dii-Fort remains 
 without notice. 
 
 If this silence be the result of neither the exactions of business nor 
 the pressiire of other serious responsibilities as a conseqixenco tho penult 
 purai>'raph of your letter of the tind of Novem])er while apparently written 
 to shew your desir(> to meet any case on its merits, must be held in this 
 instance to be the assertion of a mere general proposition, as if it were in 
 itself a rei>ly suilicient to the most specific statement of wrong, lie this as 
 it may, 1 cannot regret that I have made one more attempt to effect a 
 settlement, with yourself, evtMi if I have; failed. 
 
 Ther(« is one particular point in my letter which to my mind, calls 
 for some rejoinder, viz. : the un([ualiried non-assent I have expressed with 
 regard to your statement, that you were led toaccepptmy own "offer of ser- 
 vice, from a desire to aid me;"' under the circumstances which I 
 myself detailed. 
 
 In my last b'tter I have exi>licitly related tho purport of the one 
 couA'crsation ol' this character 1 held with you. I repeat it took place long 
 after the work was done, at th(^ last meeting I had with you, and if what 
 then passed l)ctween us, has bad any influence, it certainly produced ni* 
 action on yoiir i)art favourable to inc. 1 have to bring to your recollection, 
 that the statement in common with every other allegation in my corres- 
 poiulence rennuns unchallena'cd. 
 
 If I do not hear from you, say, within ten days, the conviction will be 
 forced iipon me, that it is hopeless to attach any weight to the paragraph in 
 question, and that 1 have erred in attributing to the apparent moderation of 
 its language, a d(>sire on your part (to repeat my own words) of an 
 adjustment of our dili'erencc fair and honorable to us both, which I was 
 sansruine enough to consider it clearly suggested. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 WILLIAM KINaSFORD. 
 C J. BuYDGES, Esq. 
 
 ( Unacknowledged) 
 
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 Mniiii^'iiic Diici'tor Itiyilu'is liaviiit; licoii a''yi>i]l willi laptaiii Tyler at tlio iiispi'ctioii of the Niasara Intoriiational 
 l{ridK<'. and liavinir siili>:iM|ii(Mitly as IntPii'olonial Coniinissinni-r inoceedod to the Lowor Provinces. It was for- 
 warded to Mniitital when llio papt-.s annoiuiTd .Mr. Uiydsios' arrival in that city. 
 
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 Bjj Tfle'^raph from Montreal to Mr. Kuii^sford. 
 
 I shall be in Ottawa to-morrow morning. You had better get the 
 maps vou bpeak of. 
 
 C. J. BRYDGES. 
 
 My Dear Sir,- 
 
 Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 
 Manaqino Director's Office, 
 Montreal, 24th Mu >h, 1871. 
 
 Mr. lirydges is sick at home to-day, aud desires me to ' ly that he wil' 
 yee you at the olfice here at 12 o'clock, to-morrow, Saturdiy. 
 
 W. KiNOBFOR. E.SQ, C. E. 
 
 My Dear Sir, — 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 WM. 
 
 WAINTVUIGHT. 
 
 Ottawa, 19th .Tune, 1871. 
 
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 By to-day's train I forward to you the map of the country between the 
 St. Lawrence and Ottawa River. I have endeavored to make it as perfect 
 as I am able, and so far as I can learn every Railway fact is detailed upon it. 
 I propose also to give you the elevation of the country crossed by the line 
 run by me South of the Ottawa, but I think it better that I first see you 
 to learn the form in which you prefer the information to be tabulated. There 
 are other matters also on which I am desirous of seeing you, and if you 
 will be good enough to let me know when you will do me the favor to 
 receive me at Montreal or elsewhere, indeed, after Wednesday, I will at 
 once wait upon you. 
 
 It appears to me that a few words are necessary with regard to the 
 map its(df. 
 
 You will o})serve that the central portion is composed of the two pub- 
 lished maps which fit together with fair general accuracy. West of these 
 maps the compilation has been made from other maps published by the 
 same firm, the northern part of which was altered from the scale of three 
 miles to the inch. 
 
 East of the Province line the work is entirely based on the Grand 
 Trunk Surveys, supi)lemented to the south by information obtained from 
 Mr. De Beaiijeu's maps. The latter, I may say iiicidentally, I proceeded 
 to Coteau Landing expressly to copy. By these means, the lots tra- 
 versed by the Grand Trunk Railway, are shewn in each individual case, and 
 on this basis the map is made. To the north the country is laid down 
 from my ovvu surveys of the line surveyed by me 17 years ago. 
 
 Thus in any question of Railway connection with the Grand Trunk from 
 the North-west^ the whole facts are at your disposal. I believe that no map 
 oxists in this form, except the one I have prepared for you. All are in a very 
 incomplete and imperfect state, and cannot in a v way be relied upon, 
 The map of the Seigniory of Vandreuil is not even plotted to scale. The 
 map of Rigaud is qiiite at variance with my thoroughly tested and care- 
 fully prepared work. In connection with this portion of the work, a care- 
 
10 
 
 fill survey was made by mo ot tlie period of tlu' loeatioa of the Grand 
 Trunk from Montreal of the sheet of waiter H])ove Ste. Ann. TIk^ first pro- 
 posed location of the line was across He aux ToLirtes, and I even made 
 some live to eiii'ht miles of such preliminary location. It was the writer 
 who chani^ed the location, and placed Ste. Ann's Bridi^e where it now is. 
 Fortunately this work was i^reserved by me, and it is utilized on the map 
 now prepared. The inibrmation south of the Saint Lawrence, has been 
 taken from the Military Maps carefully revised two years aoo, by Military 
 Engineers. The Northern additions have been copied from the documents 
 in the Crown Land OfTice of Quebec. 
 
 I enclose a Schedule of my disbursements on the maj), amounting 
 to $60. 
 
 My own time extends from the 20th April to, 1 may say, Saturday, 
 17th June, excepting three days I was in Montreal. 1 have keptcousiuitly 
 at the map the whole period, without intermitting any day, working from 
 six in the morning until I could no longm- see, certainly averaging 10 hours 
 of work a day for 56 days. I may explain that irdi'pendt'utly of the work 
 on the surface, the maps furnished to me for reference had to be copied, as 
 I had them only for a few hours. Among them my former survey, no 
 light thing in itself, had to he included, 
 
 When you do me the favor to see me we can speak further on this 
 matter ; and if I have exceeded your requirements in the amount of work 
 I have performed, do not let the liict in any way embarrass you, for I will 
 recognize your i-wn views, and consent to regulate my fee from your 
 standing point. For the monuMit the chief point is that you are satisfied 
 with what has been done. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 C. J. Brydges, Esq. 
 
 WILLIAM KINGSFORD. 
 
 ( Unach-nowledged.) 
 
 Ottawa, Saturday Evening, 1st July, 1871. 
 
 My Dear Sie,— 
 
 E\en at the risk of appearing intrusive and unduly urgent, I will ask 
 you to permit me to say that I will be exceedingly thankful if you will 
 kindly send me the cheque which, when I saw yea last Monday, I under- 
 stood you to say should be forwarded to me so soon as you could officially 
 arrange for its transmission. I trust you will believe that I would not 
 trouble you with any such letters as this, unless under extreme pressure, 
 the details of which I will not inflict upon you. Allow me to add that it 
 will be of very great assistance to me, if you will telegraph me early on 
 Monday morning when I may look forward to hear from vou. [ ' 
 
 0. J. Brydoes, Esq. 
 
 Sincerelv yours, 
 
 WILLIAM KINGSFORD, 
 
 ( Unacknowledged .) 
 
 ;o 
 
 My Dear Sir,- 
 
 Ottawa, 13th July, 1871. 
 
 I have to trouble you on the subject of the amount which to-day I 
 received for the map I prepared for you. 
 
 I am aware that my first proposition was to place the two published 
 maps side by side, the cost of which would have been from fifteen to 
 twenty dollars, and that I have received no instructions to supplement the 
 information throughout. I haA'^e acted on my own judgment, supplying 
 to you what I would have exacted in your position, and you are good 
 enough to say that the information is as full as can be desired. 
 
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 pressvire, 
 .dd.that it 
 e oarly on 
 
 If the sum g-iven me represents the limit of the amount you desire to 
 pay without regard to value, the matter is ended. In my zeal I viewed the 
 case from my own, not from your standing point, and it will be as absurd 
 as it will be unjust, to hold you responsible for work which you never 
 desired to have executed. 
 
 But if the amount sent me be based on vahxe, I must fraiikl}'' say it ".& 
 insufficient. In my former letter, I gave you a statement of the labour 
 bestowed on the map. My schedule of disbursements amount to |60. I 
 can now say ^(J8, so my own fee is small to a degree, and it must be borne 
 in mind that I um the only depository of much of the groundwork of the 
 detail shewn on the map, and hence that no other person but myself could 
 make it without going to the expense of extended and costly surveys. 
 
 I will be thankful to you if you wull let me dehnitelj know as soon 
 as you conveniently can, in w^hat classilication you place my work. 
 
 Your.s .sincerely, 
 
 AYILLIAM KINCrSFORD. 
 
 C. J. BUYDOES, EfQ. 
 
 ( Unac/cnotvledged till forty days after date.) 
 
 Dear Sir, — 
 
 GrRAND Trunk Railway of Canada, 
 Managing Director's Office, 
 Montreal, 22nd August, 1871. 
 
 Your letter of the 13th ult. arrived just as I was leaving for the Lower 
 Provinces, and I have not had time, until to-day, even to read it. You 
 will remember that in the survey you made for me between Vandreuil 
 and Ottawa, you fixed your own price, which I consented to. The dupli- 
 cation of the plan was an after suggestion of your own, which you at first 
 told nie would cost something like |16 to $20. Whilst no doubt the plan 
 is a useful one, I sxij^pose it was not absolutely indispensable, and I think 
 under all the circumstances, that the sum which I haA'e paid for it, being 
 about ten times what you originally estimated, cannot be considered as 
 illiberal on my part. 
 
 I am, 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 W. KiNGSFORD, Esq., C. E., \ 
 Ottawa. \ 
 
 De'r Sir, — 
 
 C. J. BRYDGES. 
 
 Ottawa, 29th August, 1871. 
 
 „ Y"tr?.r letter of the 22nd suggests that you misapprehend the character, 
 oi t\ie map I have furnished you, and which in my interview with you at 
 Montreal you desired me to prep:\,re as I saw fit, telling me that "you 
 would be glad " to pay my charge for it. 
 
 It is not a "duplication" of the Tracing accompanying ray Report, of 
 tho text of which the letter is explanatory. On the con ' ary, it is a totally 
 different matter, as comparison will shew, being an original and carefully 
 compiled work. For the detail of the labor, and disbursements in its 
 composition, I beg leave to refer you to my previous communications. 
 
 I estimate its value at |750. Of this sum I have received only $160, 
 much of which has been swallowed up by expenses. If you think this 
 charge excessive I have to ask you w^hat you do consider to be fair pay- 
 ment, so that I may know, and if possible, meet your views. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 WILLIAM KINGSFORD. 
 (Unacknow ledged. ) 
 
13 
 
 Deae Sir,— 
 
 Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, ) 
 
 Managing Director's Office, > 
 
 Montreal, Sept. 20th, 1871. ) 
 
 I have spoken to Mr. Brydges in regard to the map question. He 
 says that he simply understood the expense was to be very trifling, and he 
 considered that in paying you 1150 he was acting liberally, and expending 
 more than he was led to believe the cost would be. 
 
 He does not see that he can increase that amount. 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
 WM. WAINWRIGIIT. 
 
 Dear Sir, — 
 
 Montreal, Saint Lawrence Hall, 
 
 Thursday Morning, 21st Sept., 1871. 
 
 expression from him of the 
 your kind note is not official 
 
 I received your letter last night, and I have sincerely to thank you 
 for bringing the matter in question before the notice of Mr. Brydges. 
 
 I have already laid before Mr. Brydges the particiilars of my claim 
 for his consideration, and the reasons why I hold the amount paid me, 
 $150, insufficient. 
 
 I beg leave here to say that I await the 
 ultimate decision he will make, for I presume 
 and final. 
 
 If under the circumstance Mr. Brydges will consent to refer the 
 matter to a commo:ii friend, I shall be extremely glad to meet his views 
 and abide by the decision given. 
 
 Very faithfully yours, 
 
 WILLIAM KINGSFORD. 
 William Wainwright, Esq. 
 
 ( Unac.knotvledged. ) 
 
 Toronto, Oct. 1st, 1871. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 When in Montreal last, I suggested that we should submit the differ- 
 ence of view between us to the judgment of a disinterested third party ; 
 and as * =* ^ has been kind enough to say that if laid before him 
 for decision he will give his views upon it, I have to propose that th« 
 matter be referred to him, and whatever may be the views of ^ * # 
 they be binding upon us. There is some qiialification as to time, I 
 believe. By some accident # * ^ ',s letter has not yet reached me. 
 
 Deeming it of importance not to lose time, I enclose this letter to 
 Mr. * , a common friend of both, and I have asked him to be gor>d 
 enough to forward it to you, appending the wishes of ^ ^ ^ 
 
 Since I was in Montreal the report of the Intercolonial Railway 
 Commissioners has come into my hands, and I feel it a duty to myself not 
 to let the opportunity pass of thanking yovi for the words which appear 
 over your signature on page 28 of that report.* 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 WILLIAM KINGSFORD. 
 C. J. Brydges, Esq, 
 
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