Catalogue description Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from various Government offices...

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from various Government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals which relate to immigration and the West Indies. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices: Admiralty (contract passages; passage from Southampton to Calcutta for W Marriott and six Indian migrants); Board of Trade (deaths of Indian indentured migrants on ship Saladin, official number 13722); Foreign Office (emigration from China; visit to Madeira of British official for emigration purposes; appointment of emigration agents; Spanish government contemplation of introducing free labour into their colonies); India Board (return migrants and savings; proposal to give indentured labourers at British Guiana and Jamaica a grant of land instead of return passage; provision of passages for children of return migrants; transportation of convicts; temporary replacement for Mr Caird; conduct of Captain Peppercorn, commanding emigrant ship Bucephalus; emigration agent accounts; Protector of Emigrants; immigration legislation; mortalities on board ships; emigration agent expenses; migration to St Lucia; emigration agent appointments; Indian indentured migration to Jamaica; duties of emigration agents); House of Commons (request for immigration returns); Treasury (sums required on account of guaranteed loans for Grenada and St Lucia; statements and vouchers from East India Company; payments relating to immigration; statements of expenses; immigration legislation; immigration expenses for Grenada; salaries; return migrants and savings; payment relating to migration of 'liberated Africans'; accounts of colonial emigration agent at Madras); G Booker (visit to Secretary of State Labouchere, emigration); Glasgow West India Association (labour for West Indies; immigration); British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (opposition to Jamaican bill on indentured migration and labour); West India Committee (emigration from China). Individuals: James H Brown (reports arrival, refers to commission to look into immigration to St Vincent; liberated Africans; contract passage); James Cadett (Trinidad Immigration Ordinance); Edward Hyde Clarke (malaria amongst African labourers; African labour); John Campbell (liberated Africans to Grenada); George H Chambers (Tobago immigration legislation); Messrs Cavan &Company (British Guiana return passages); George Dennis (application for post of emigration agent at Bombay for British Guiana); Colin Mackenzie Dick (views on reasons for migration, labour, railways); Thomas Hankey (liberated Africans to Grenada; memorial from Agricultural and Horticultural Society for migration of 'mutinous sepoys' [Indian mutiny]); J K Kilpin (memorial); W I Lindsay (migrants on ship Clarendon); David Miller (migration and his views on different 'races', reference to Jamaica and extracts from Glasgow Herald); Mr Marriott (emigration agent for British Guiana at Calcutta); Hugh Reed (Jamaican agriculture and Jamaica as place suited for English poor; combatting slave trade); John Saradar (memorial to the Queen about return passage for him and others from Caribbean to India, refers to many things including abuse he suffered in London); Mr Wodehouse (migration of Indian 'mutineers' to British Guiana; labour and wages in West Indies; immigration proposal).