| Description | Transcription of letter from Alexander Macpherson, Tobago, to Sigismund Rucker, thanking him for letters, lamenting the Government's current attitude to the West Indies but pleased that Lord George Bentinck is still supportive; problems with introducing lower wages for the workers; account of the remainder of the crop to be shipped to London; glad to hear of a Government loan; noting some of his own economies; sale of some small lands, ('extracted from Day File' which was not deposited), 20 September 1848 |