Official and general correspondence

Title

Official and general correspondence

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 600 / 9

Summary

Correspondence for the period January to August 1922, with a single enclosure dated December 1921 and a report dated February 1924.

The correspondence mainly relates to the British Guiana Loan and the British Guiana Colonization Scheme.

Includes letters from:

Akers-Douglas, G., six letters (including two telegrams), with enclosures (copy correspondence with B.H.O. Armstrong)

Armitage, Francis Paul, two letters

Aspinall, Sir Algernon Edward, two letters, with enclosures (draft press release and newspaper cutting from The Morning Post, 28 Jun 1922, about the diamond bracelet presented to Princess Mary by the people of British Guiana on the occassion of her wedding, with typescript copy of Princess Mary's letter to Clementi)

Auld, James Paton, six letters

Carr, R.H., two letters

Case, Gerald O., two letters

Cheong, A.J.

Cochran-Patrick, Charles Kennedy, with enclosure (copy of his formal letter reporting on the accident to the flying boat Chaguaramus, Dec 1921)

Darnley, E.R.

Davson, Sir Ivan Buchanan (letter introducing Hugh Frewen)

Dawe, Sir Arthur James, two letters

Dunsford, Lord, three letters, with enclosures (copy of a letter that J.L. Wild and Company Limited's financiers are proposing to send to the Colonial Secretary in British Guiana; a memorandum about making 'a Colonial Stock a Trustee Investment')

Freeston, Sir Leslie Brian

Glyn, 1st Baron (Ralph George Campbell Glyn), five letters (including three telegrams)

Grindle, Sir Gilbert Edmund Augustine, three letters, with enclosure (copy of a despatch from the Governor of British Guiana, Sir Wilfred Collet, forwarding a Resolution by the Chamber of Commerce in favour of raising a loan for the development of the Colony)

Halifax, 1st Earl of (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood), three letters, with a copy letter from Clementi to Halifax

Hamilton, Charles Boughton

Harlech, 4th Baron (William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore)

Haynes, Edwin Allison, with enclosures (copy letter from Haynes to the Director of Public Works regarding a roadway from Hyde Park, Demerara River, to the junction of the trail from Arakwa to Itumi River, with related sketch plan)

Heath, Ashton W.

Keatinge, Gerald Francis, two letters

King, John Hampden, four letters

Lavarre, William J., with enclosures (two newspaper cuttings from [ The Daily Chronicle], one of which is about Clementi)

Lugard, 1st Baron (Frederick Dealtry Lugard)

Macdonald, Arthur Cameron, five letters, with enclosures (copies of telegrams from and to Macdonald, Gibbs & Co. Engineers Limited and B.H.O. Armstrong)

Mary, Princess Royal (Countess of Harewood) (thanking the Colony of British Guiana for the diamond bracelet sent to her on the ocassion of her wedding)

Mason, G.B.

Masterton-Smith, Sir James Edward, two letters (including a telegram)

May, Lady Helena Augusta Victoria

Milner, 1st Viscount (Alfred Milner), two letters, with copies of Clementi's letters to Milner attached

Parry, Oswald Hutton

Paul, Herbert J., three letters

Powell, E.C.

Rolleston, Herbert Lancelot, two letters

Roth, Walter Edmund

Spiller, John Wyatt

Stewart, Sir Gershom, two letters

Stephenson, Sir Albert Edward

Veerasawmy, J.A., with enclosures (copies of letters and statements and a newspaper cutting from The Daily Argosy relating to the Colonization Scheme)

Verney, 4th Baronet (Sir Harry Calvert Williams), five letters, with enclosure (newspaper cutting from The Morning Post giving E.F.L. Wood's impressions of British Guiana)

Wild, Job L., four letters

Wiseman, Robert Arthur, four letters, with enclosures (copies of letters and telegrams from the Colonial Office to Bernhard, Scholle & Company, Higginson & Company, Capel & Company, the Governor of British Guiana, and the Crown Agents for the Colonies; list of questions to be asked to witnesses at a meeting of the West Indian Currency Committee, annotated by Clementi who was a witness), with a draft letter from Clementi to Wiseman

Wood, Casey Albert (circular letter with covering note from his secretary, Cora Raymond)

Also includes:

prospectus (flyer) about the British Guiana Loan of £1,000,000 ($4,800,000), with related newspaper cutting from The Times, 31 May 1922

printed notice, being an extract from the Official Gazette, 29 Apr 1922, regarding the British Guiana Loan of £1,000,000 ($4,800,000)

typescript notes by G.F. Keatinge on the Colonization Scheme, with draft version showing manuscript annotations and amendments, [Apr-May 1922?]

The Cambrian, vol. 12, no. 12, Lent Term 1922, inscribed 'with the compliments of the Principal & Boys of the Prince of Wales' College, Moratuwa'

table plan for a Corona Club dinner, 13 Jun 1922

certificate of life membership of the West India Committee, signed by the Secretary, Sir Algernon Aspinall, 23 Mar 1922

invitation to an afternoon party at Buckingham Palace, 21 Jul 1922

Status of Indians in British Guiana. Colonization Scheme. British Guiana Accepts Recommendations of Pillai-Tivary Report, 4 Feb 1924

This box also contains undated correspondence from Clementi's time in British Guiana.

Date

1921-1924, n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box