Letters

Component identifier:

File 1

Content Summary:

The letters cover business dealings including: accounts, staff, working of estates, labourers, wages, sugar estates, debt, produce sold, insurance, shares, failure of Fraser and Co., Scottish Widow's Fund, cultivation of India Rubber trees, income tax, Colonial Office, Pioneer Grant, immigration from India, newspaper clippings on sugar and the West Indian Colonies, new process of sugar extraction from sugar cane, attempts to improve yield of sugar from juice, Golden Grove, Chinese labourers, mortgages, [Rennie?] Fibre, death of George Campbell, cocoanut growing, Basket Sugar Estate, rival firms.

Correspondents include: E. Horsman, A.G. Morrison, Sir John Ramsden, E.M. Underdown, James Ray, Charles Stewart (London), John P. Laurence (London), J.E. Bowes (London), Quinton Hogg, George Campbell, Campbell Wynne, Arthur B. Woods (London), John Turner, Jasper Young.

Processing information:

M1340-M1343

Names:

Cumbria Record Office. Robert Baxter. Senior Archivist

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