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Catalogue reference: CO 137/111
Date: 1804 Jan-June
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Forwards a letter from William Kelly Smith commenting on the 'regeneration' of Jamaica...
Catalogue reference: CO 137/544/17
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- CO 137/544/17
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1890 Nov 7
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Forwards a letter from William Kelly Smith commenting on the 'regeneration' of Jamaica since 1865 but making a number of suggestions for improvement. A Colonial Office official has noted that Mr Smith was a prisoner at the time of the Morant Bay Rebellion, tried for the alleged use of seditious language prior to the rebellion. As a result of his experiences he appears 'to have suffered in his brain' and the notice taken of previous communications has encouraged him to 'renewed flights of oratory'.
No. 391, folios 104-116
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- 23697/1890
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- Open Document, Open Description
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