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Asks for permission to land telegraph cables in Bermuda and establish a station there...

Catalogue reference: CO 37/216/78

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This record is about the Asks for permission to land telegraph cables in Bermuda and establish a station there... dating from 1885 Nov 4 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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CO 37/216/78
Date
1885 Nov 4
Description

Asks for permission to land telegraph cables in Bermuda and establish a station there as part of a project to connect the West Indian System via San Domingo and New York, which he claims is a more direct route than the present line via Cuba and Key West.

Charles T Bright, Folios 396-401

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
19368/1885
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9066469/

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