Catalogue description Colonial Office and Predecessors: St. Lucia Original Correspondence

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Reference: CO 253
Title: Colonial Office and Predecessors: St. Lucia Original Correspondence
Description:

This series contains original correspondence relating to St Lucia.
Date: 1709-1873
Arrangement:

Bound volumes arranged chronologically within the following subject headings: Despatches (letters of the governors), Offices (letters of government departments and other organisations) and Individuals (arranged alphabetically). Each volume with a contents list, or précis of each letter giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter. Series includes some case volumes.
Related material:

See also CO 318

For correspondence after 1873 see CO 321
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 150 volume(s)
Publication note:

Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, 1574-1739 (HMSO, 1860-1994; CDROM edition, Routledge, 2000)
Unpublished finding aids:

For registers of correspondence before 1850 see CO 326, after 1850 see CO 367. For indexed précis of correspondence see CO 714.

Administrative / biographical background:

Colonial possession of St Lucia was disputed between France and Britain and control of the island changed hands a number of times between 1605 and 1803 when Britain recaptured the island. In 1838 local government of St. Lucia was incorporated in that of the Windward Islands. St Lucia became a fully independent member state of the Commonwealth on 22 February 1979.

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