Box 606961847
Container
Contains 39 Results:
Notebook used by Wiseman for his diary of the tour, [5 Dec 1921-15 Feb 1922]
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 1, item 3
Pages numbered 1-103. The entries give brief notes about places visited, people, interviews, and discussions (see MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 1, fols. 51-86).
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
[5 Dec 1921-15 Feb 1922]
Papers concerning arrangements for the tour to the West Indies: Programme in St Vincent, 11-12 Jan, and a letter from R. Popham Lobb, Administrator, with a list of deputations, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 1, fols. 13-15
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates:
n.d.
Correspondence, marked 'personal', with R. Popham Lobb: Letter from Lobb in Cyprus, enclosing one from H. Conolly, Department of Science and Agriculture, Georgetown, 5-19 Apr 1926
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 3, fols. 56-66
Lobb was Colonial Secretary in Cyprus at this time. The letter discusses his work and the death of Sir John Harrison, Director of the Department. A reply from Wiseman refers also to J.C.D. Fenn, Lobb's successor as Colonial Secretary in British Guiana (Guyana).
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates:
5-19 Apr 1926
Correspondence with Dr F.W. Pick, who wrote to Wiseman asking for information concerning Lord Harlech (W. Ormsby-Gore) and the West Indian tour of 1921-1922, 8 Jan-14 Mar 1940
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 3, fols. 85-93
An account of the tour was to form part of a book by Pick. Wiseman answered questions on various specific points (fols. 88-91), and lent photographs. (See MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 2 for more on the tour.)
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates:
8 Jan-14 Mar 1940
Letter from M.J. Rendall, Vice-President, Imperial Studies Committee of the Royal Empire Society, thanking Wiseman for congratulations on his CMG (Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George) and for much assistance, 2 Jan 1931
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 3, fol. 94
Correspondence with Lt. Col. T.R. St Johnston, Acting Governor, Leeward Islands, 26 Sep 1924-20 Oct 1925
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 3, fols. 95-103
Comprises:
(fols. 95-98) letter from St Johnston with a cutting from the Dominica Chronicle about hurricane damage in Tortola, 26 Sep 1924
(fols. 99-103) two letters from Wiseman and one from St Johnston about 'near-seditious' newspapers, and about Wiseman's transfer to the Kenya Department of the Colonial Office, 17 Aug-20 Oct 1925.
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Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates:
26 Sep 1924-20 Oct 1925
Letter from Herbert T. Thomas, Kingston, Jamaica, about his book on the West Indies and the letter of congratulation he had received from Wiseman, 12 Jul 1927
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 3, fol. 104
Colonial Office - West Indian Department: Papers concerning the Colonial Office Mission of Inquiry, and General Correspondence, 1921-1951
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folders 1 and 3
Papers concerning the Colonial Office Mission of Enquiry into administrative and other problems affecting the West Indies, 1921-1922
Folder
The Mission was led by E.F.L. Wood, MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (later Lord Halifax), who was accompanied by W. Ormsby-Gore, MP, and R.A. Wiseman. The papers are contained in a Colonial Office folder labelled by Wiseman 'General (Itinerary, personal)'. Added by him in pencil, at a later date, are the words 'Wood's visit (Halifax)' and the dates '1921/22'. There are four unfoliated items. (See also MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 3, fols. 85-93.)...
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
1921-1922
General correspondence, filed between alphabetical sheets, 1924-1940
Folder
Many of the sections are empty.
Extents: 108 Leaves
Dates:
1924-1940
The West India Committee Circular, Vol. XXXVI, No. 603, 10 Nov 1921
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 1, item 1
Contains an article entitled 'Mr Wood's coming tour', with a photograph of Wiseman captioned 'A Principal of the Colonial Office who will accompany Mr Edward Wood on his West Indian Tour' (p. 466).
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
10 Nov 1921
The West India Committee Circular, Vol. XXXVII, No. 611, 2 Mar 1922
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 1, item 2
Contains a note on Wood's visit to St Lucia (p. 106), and an account by Hon. H.A Alford Nicholls of Wood's visit to Dominica, with two group photographs (pp. 107-108).
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
2 Mar 1922
Correspondence with Wood: Text of cable from Wood [to the S/S Col.] reporting the arrival of the Mission in Kingston on 13 Dec and subsequent events there, [Dec 1921]
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 1, fol. 87
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
[Dec 1921]
Correspondence with Wood: Telegraphic correspondence between J.A.G. Smith, Jamaica, and Wood about a public meeting arranged by the Jamaica Representative Government Association, 19-21 Dec 1921
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 1, fols. 88-112
With typescript copy and two printed leaflets.
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates:
19-21 Dec 1921
Correspondence with Wood: Despatch from Wilfred Collet, Governor, British Guiana (Guyana), to Wood with a list of Associations desiring to send deputations and of questions for discussion, 6 Jan 1922
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 1, fols. 113-117
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates:
6 Jan 1922
Correspondence with Wood: Letter from Wood at Government House, Trinidad, to Sir George [Haddon-Smith, Governor of Grenada], about proposed reductions in official salaries, 24 Jan 1922
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 1, fols. 118-123
Handwritten draft and typed copy.
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates:
24 Jan 1922
Correspondence with Mrs K. Burdon, Government House, St Kitts (wife of the Administrator, Major J.A. Burdon), 24 Mar-5 Sep 1924
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 3, fols. 1-9
About matters of local concern:
(fols. 1-3) letter from Mrs Burdon, about infant welfare and midwifery work in St Kitts, the behaviour of the Governor, Sir Eustace Fiennes (with some doggerel verses), and the visit to the island of three American destroyers, 24 Mar 1924
(fols. 4-5) letter from Wiseman in reply, mentioning the forthcoming visit to St Kitts of 'the wireless people' with...
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates:
24 Mar-5 Sep 1924
Correspondence, marked 'private and personal', with O.L. Hancock, Commissioner, Virgin Islands, 16 Jan-10 Oct 1924
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 3, fols. 10-24
Comprises:
(fols. 10-11) letter from Hancock giving his first impressions of the Virgin Islands, and referring to the Hospital Matron, Miss Elsdon, and the bad staff quarters at the hospital, and the need for a new government motor launch, 16 Jan 1924
(fols. 12-14) letter from Hancock describing his visit to the island of Anegada, and referring to the cotton crop and agricultural...
Extents: 15 Leaves
Dates:
16 Jan-10 Oct 1924
Letter from John P. Hand, MP in Bermuda and a delegate at the Canada-West Indies Conference 1925, referring to the Agreement reached there and to proposals for the next Imperial Conference, 25 Jan-27 Feb 1926
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 3, fols. 25-29
Wiseman's reply mentions a letter from Macaulay about opposition to the Treaty (see MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 3, fols. 73-76). See MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 2, for more on the Canada-West Indies Conference, 1925.
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates:
25 Jan-27 Feb 1926
Notebook containing entries by Wiseman, [14 Dec 1921-2 Feb 1922]
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 371/2, folder 1, item 4
Concerned chiefly with local government and organisations in the islands visited by the Mission, and officials connected with them.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
[14 Dec 1921-2 Feb 1922]