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Despatches from Governor Sir Robert Macgregor Stewart as well as letters from various...
Catalogue reference: CO 37/242
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This record is about the Despatches from Governor Sir Robert Macgregor Stewart as well as letters from various... dating from 1905 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 37/242
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1905
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Description (What the record is about)
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Despatches from Governor Sir Robert Macgregor Stewart as well as letters from various offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters related to Bermuda. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from officers and individuals is not. Correspondents and subjects for offices and individuals are as follows:
Offices:
- Admiralty (naval establishment, wireless telegraphy, Dockyard Port Act, Bermuda Electric Light Power and Traction Company, steamer service);
- Crown Agents (scholarship);
- Board of Trade (wireless telegraphy);
- War Office (garrison, acquisition of land by naturalised aliens, volunteer reserve, military contribution);
- Lloyds (Official Surveyors Act);
- Cable Companies (wireless telegraphy);
- Halifax and Bermudas Cable Company (wireless telegraphy);
- Direct West India Cable Company (wireless telegraphy);
- Quebec Steamship Company (wireless telegraphy);
- General Post Office (wireless telegraphy, money order convention with the US, parcels post with the US).
Individuals:
- Henry J Brown (inspection of records);
- Elder Dempster & Co (steamer service);
- Sir H L Geary (disgraceful state of education);
- Eyre Hutson, Colonial Secretary (guarantee of bonds)
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2750081/
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Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence
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