| Description | Transcription of letter from Alexander Macpherson, Tobago, to Colonel John Gordon of Cluny, reporting on totals of sugar, molasses and rum during the year; hoping for better crops this year; need for protection from foreign slave grown sugar; local agitation for this and for cheap labour; scarcity of turtles, ('extracted from Day File' which was not deposited), 5 October 1847 |