Series
Southern Department and Foreign Office: Embassy, Ottoman Empire: Letter Books
Catalogue reference: FO 261
Date: 1776-1794
This series contains letter books compiled during the embassy of Sir Robert Ainslie to the Ottoman empire.
Piece
Despatches from Walter Egerton, governor of British Guiana, in continuation of CO...
Catalogue reference: CO 111/597
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This record is about the Despatches from Walter Egerton, governor of British Guiana, in continuation of CO... dating from 1914 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara, and.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 111/597
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1914
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Description (What the record is about)
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Despatches from Walter Egerton, governor of British Guiana, in continuation of CO 111/596 as well as letters received from various government offices (departments) during 1914. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from Offices (most of which relates to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 111/593-597) is not.
Offices: Admiralty (movements of enemy war ships, dates of sailing of ships); Crown Agents (note issues of Royal Bank of Canada and British Guiana Bank, Demerara Railway Company, loan, assistant colonial engineer, Captain H M Brunker's pension; Foreign Office (balata industry in Surinam, administration of Venezuelan frontier, alleged invasion of Venezuelan territory, Brazilian boundary, application of A Leechman for letters of introduction, amendment of Dutch Guiana Labour Ordinance, development of interior, British Guiana labourers in Zambezia, claim of C G Filardi, Chinese proceeding to United States.
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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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CO 111
Colonial Office and predecessors: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara, and...
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