Collection | GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections |
Level | Item |
Ref No | MS 3600/1/14/1/5 |
Title | Gordon of Cluny: Tobago estates: Transcription of letter from Colonel John Gordon of Cluny to Sigismund Rucker, London, on various matters, 26 January 1848 |
Date | 26 January 1848 |
Extent | 1 item |
Description | Transcription of letter from Colonel John Gordon of Cluny to Sigismund Rucker, London, regretting that the Tobago estates are in so much debt and objecting to Rucker sending out expensive equipment without consulting him; convinced that they will never be profitable again while the free labour estates have to compete with foreign slave labour estates; determined to waste no more money on them, ('extracted from Day File' which was not deposited), 26 January 1848 |
Access Status | Open |