Newfoundland correspondence and papers

Title

Newfoundland correspondence and papers

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. c. 7352

Summary

Correspondence and papers relating to Newfoundland's fisheries and other industries, and communications with Wilfred Grenfell, founder of a medical mission to Newfoundland inspired by Hopwood's 1891 mission and report.

Correspondence and papers relating to Hopwood's 1891 mission to investigate the condition of deep sea fishermen. Includes

(fols. 1-5, 18-26) Correspondence about mission to investigate Newfoundland deep sea fishing, and the collapse of two Newfoundland banks, 1887-95, including a letter (fol. 21) from the Newfoundland Premier Sir William Whiteway, 1893

(fols. 6-15) Hopwood's published account of Newfoundland fisheries and fishermen for the Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, 1891

Miscellaneous correspondence and papers 1897-1904, n.d. Includes letters from

(fols. 27-8) Joseph Chamberlain, 1897

(fol. 35) Frank Lloyd, 1903

(fol. 30) Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, 1898

(fol. 31) Sir William Whiteway, 1899

with (fols. 36-44) description of the scenery of the Humber River, Western Newfoundland, no author, n.d.

Correspondence relating to fisheries arbitration, 1905-10. Includes letters from

(fols. 46, 48-55, 60-7) James Bryce, later Viscount Bryce, 1907-9

(fol. 47) Henry Thurstan Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford, 1907

(fol. 68) William Snowdon Robson, Baron Robson, 1910

Correspondence concerning Wilfred Grenfell's Newfoundland medical mission, 1904-1943. Includes letters from

(fols. 70-1, 75-80, 82-95, 99-100) Sir Wilfred Grenfell, c.1904, 1911, 1913, 1919-20, 1926-27, 1933-34, 1936

(fols. 73-4) Sir William MacGregor, 1904

(fols. 72) Sir Frederick Treves, 1904

Date

1887-1943

Language

English

Physical extent

101 Leaves