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Barbados

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Collection

Archive of Sir Charles Edward Grey (1785-1865) and the Grey family

Correspondence and papers of Sir Charles Edward Grey (1785-1865), Indian judge and colonial governor, with correspondence and papers of other members of the Grey family, 17th-20th century.
Extents: 5.61 Linear metres (51 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1642-1934
Single Item

'A coppie journall of Entries made in the Custome House of Barbados, beginning August the 10th 1664, and ending August the 10th 1665.'

'A coppie journall of Entries made in the Custome House of Barbados, beginning August the 10th 1664, and ending August the 10th 1665.'
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. b. 122
Extents: 205 pages
Dates: Written in 1665 (?)
Collection

Correspondence of the Merivale Family, mainly of Walter Merivale, railway engineer, and his wife Emma Magdalene

Correspondence of the Merivale family, 1869-1943, mainly of Walter Merivale, railway engineer in India, Costa Rica and Barbados.
Extents: 2.25 Linear metres (21 Shelfmarks)
Dates: 1869-1943
Single Item

Letter-book of J. T. Alleyne, sugar planter in Barbados

Letter-book of J. T. Alleyne, sugar planter in Barbados
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 245
Extents: 130 Leaves
Dates: 1811-1814
Collection

Papers of John E. Warmington

Personal papers of Warmington and his mother. Included are diaries, correspondence, certificates, memorial cards, family photographs and papers relating to genealogy and antiques. Much of the correspondence relates to the years spent in the West Indies and includes letters between Warmington and a close friend, Evelyn Laurie, a headteacher in the West Indies.
Extents: 8 boxes
Dates: [ca. 1876]-1960
Single Item

Papers of Richard Rawle

Papers relating to the activities of Richard Rawle as Principal of Codrington College in Barbados, and as Bishop of Trinidad. Letters from Richard Rawle's wife, Susan, to her Aunt (Miss Harriet Blagg of Cheadle) and to her sister-in-law Fanny (Mrs. Charles John Blagg of Cheadle). Also, letters from Mrs. M.C. Layton, widow of a West Indian vicar and Principal of the Girls' School on the Codrington College estate.9 files.
Shelfmark: MSS.W.Ind.s.41
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1846-1888
File

Photographs of the Caribbean by Adolphe Duperly, 1865-1875

37 photographic views of the Lesser Antilles islands, including Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Grenada, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Trinidad, and Tobago. Prints mounted on paper, with pencil and ink titles and annotations. Likely cut from a larger album.
Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 87
Extents: 37 items
Dates: 1865-1875