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See CO 28/136....
Catalogue reference: CO 28/134/51
Date: 1840 Aug 9
See CO 28/136. Barbados No. 76, folio 466
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Free Public Library. Requests the telegram be sent 'en clair' to Mr Carnegie Skibo...
Catalogue reference: CO 28/261/59
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- CO 28/261/59
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1903 Nov 11
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Free Public Library. Requests the telegram be sent 'en clair' to Mr Carnegie Skibo Castle. States that the House of Legislature gratefully accepts the Secretary of State's munificent gift for erection of the free public library on the conditions named in his letter of 26 August (letter to follow, he states).
Unnumbered telegram, folios 410-414
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- 41227/1903
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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