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Folios 18-21. British Emigration to Virginia: requests information regarding a scheme...

Catalogue reference: FO 368/61/5

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This record is about the Folios 18-21. British Emigration to Virginia: requests information regarding a scheme... dating from 1906 Feb 9 in the series Foreign Office: Commercial and Sanitary Department: General Correspondence from 1906. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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FO 368/61/5
Date
1906 Feb 9
Description

Folios 18-21. British Emigration to Virginia: requests information regarding a scheme reported in the Times and apparently supported by Vice-Consul Brine in Richmond, Virginia, to encourage the emigration of the London poor to labour on farms in Virginia; no report has been received in London and one is requested from the Consul in Baltimore.

From C P Lucas, Emigrants' Information Office, Westminster, sent 8 February 1906.

Code 145 [United States], file 4808, paper 4808.

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Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
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