Catalogue description Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from individuals on matters...

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from individuals on matters relating to the West Indies. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Anonymous (reform of post office required); Durant St Andre, French consul general in London (forwards list of judiciary documents addressed to individuals settled in the British colonies, requests information about named individuals settled in British colonies); Colonel L Allen (apprenticeship); Robert Bowie (seeks address of Lieutenant J R Thomas); William Boggett (suggestions for suppression of the slave trade); Joseph Beldam (remarks on the present state of the apprenticeship system); Sam Bowly (abolition of apprenticeship); Thomas Fowell Buxton (asks 'Did I on any occasion, under any circumstances in any of my communications with the Colonial Office in 1836 or at any other time throw out any hint or sentence of any kind expressive of my approbation of the Apprenticeship System?'); William Blair (requests an appointment); Messrs Beldam & Matthews (decline offer to enquire into laws affecting the emancipated population); J E Bethune (relating to his notes on Poor Laws); John Joseph Cunningham (enquires as to whereabouts of his uncle); Cox & Company (requests certificates for salaries of governors); Dr William Cullen (insufficiency of Mixed Commission at Rio de Janeiro); James Cope (remarks on amended Abolition Act); Thomas Carter (requests testimonials sent in 1833); Prince Christophe, brother of late king of Haiti (seeks assistance [3 letters and copy of his certificate of arrival at Swansea from Cuba on 21 February 1837], list of papers he requires); F Dwarris (requests answer to his letter); Lieutenant Robert Davies, Royal Marines (seeks appointment as magistrate); Dr W Fergusson, inspector of hospitals (sends printed paper on 'The supposed contagious property of Yellow Fever'); Philip Howard (forwards letter from Sir Alexander Crichton remarking on Act amending Abolition Act); W Hankey (is favourable to termination of apprenticeship); John Hamilton (seeks appointment as inspector of prisons); J H Johnstone (seeks appointment as stipendiary magistrate); G Knapp (calls attention to increase in slave trading and makes suggestions as to its suppression); Mrs Wilhelmina Laurie (requests certificate of marriage between James Booth and Marianne Lussy at Martinique between 1770 and 1790); Captain Manby (his plan for saving lives from shipwreck and his related expenses, correspondence with French Government on his plan, copies of his lecture on means of preserving lives from shipwreck, requests payment of expenses, his memorial for remuneration, thanks for grant from Treasury); Alexander Walker Maclean (printed copy of his memorial to the Treasury on the subject of currency); John Murray (introduction of silk worms into West Indies); Francis Moseley (seeks appointment as inspector of prisons); 'Moore' (printed copy of letter addressed to the editor of the Hampshire Telegraph); Anne Nugent (seeking information about her son, formerly of the 86th Regiment, who she has been informed died in the police force in the West Indies); Alexandre Oppenheim (seeks post as stipendiary magistrate); A L Palmer (states that a vessel is about to sail from the Thames on a slave trading expedition); Captain Guy Parsons (seeks appointment as inspector of prisons); James Reid (complains of Lord Brougham's statement respecting treatment of apprentices); Lord Sandon (letter from Mr Walkinshaw respecting emigration to the West Indies); William Snagg (observations on Abolition Act); J H Stack (seeks appointment as surveyor); S Sansum, Martinique (complains of injuries, wishes to remove to a British colony); Joseph Sturge (states that assemblies are unfit to legislate for freedom, states that measures are being adopted in several colonies 'to keep the Negro a slave' and that governors of such colonies should be recalled, 'negroes' willing to work for wages, extracts of letters from the West Indies, asks if the independence of Haiti has been acknowledged); J Scoble and C Stuart (report their embarkation on a tour of enquiry and inspection); H E Sharpe, former attorney general of Barbados (reports on certain Acts, report on laws, draft of a Vagrancy Act, draft of a bill for the establishment of inferior courts of criminal justice and for the better regulation of office of Justice of the Peace, bill for the better regulation and enforcement of the relative duties of masters and servants); Major Verity (seeks post as magistrate for his son); John Vernon (calls attention to the currency question); Daniel Warren (seeks appointment as inspector of prisons); John Yeates (respecting some property claimed by a man named Webster); Inhabitants of Glasgow (memorial against the importation of 'hill coolies'). The volume also includes, bound at the end, various papers on Crown lands including printed copy of instructions to the governors of New South Wales, Van Dieman's Land and Western Australia on Crown Lands and Emigration.