Records of Zaloni Tea Estates Limited, comprising annual reports and accounts; and circulars.

Records relating to property ownership, including lease of the Goldsmith's estates in East Acton and leases of premises in Chiswick, Enfield, Heston, Highgate, Sunbury, and Kilburn. Also marriage settlements and lease and release of plantations in Antigua and St Christopher's [St Kitts] with lists of slaves.

Memorandum and articles of association for Wallardie Tea Estates Limited.

The records of WH Tindall and Company, tea and coffee growers and exporters, comprise records relating to the Imboolpittia and other estates including managers' and crop accounts, statements of expenditure and receipts, notes of coffee shipments and yields of tea and rubber, and papers relating to the administration of and materials for the estate 1841-1933; report and prospectus regarding land development 1917 and 1920; papers relating to the activities of various company managers and superintendents 1841-56; letters and papers regarding general trading, acquisition of estates and their cultivation 1842-88; papers regarding the Tindall family investments and trusts c 1872-1929; papers regarding the sale of land to W.H. Tindall 1843-55; papers regarding administration of W.H. Tindall's estate 1900-2; map showing coffee estates ca.1860 and notes on the history of the firm 1932-1966.

The records of Cotesworth and Powell Limited, import, export, and general merchants, comprise accounts relating to sugar plantations of Umhlanga Valley (Natal) Sugar and Coffee Company Limited 1866-87; notes in relation to credit arrangements, with other papers c 1870-90.

Records of United Serdang (Sumatra) Rubber Plantations Limited, including memorandum and articles of association; minutes; annual reports and accounts; circulars; and ledgers.

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Records of the United Lankat Plantations Limited, including memorandum and articles of association; minute books; annual reports and accounts; and circulars.

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Circulars of the United Cocoa Development Company Limited.

Conveyance of the de Leifde coffee plantation on the Island of Wakenaam, Guyana.

Records of Toerangie (Sumatra) Rubber and Produce Estates Limited, including articles of association; minutes; annual reports and accounts; circulars; and a ledger.

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This is a collection of records of various companies involved in the trading of Ceylon [now Sri Lanka] and Indian teas. It consists of import registers for an un-named company, auction catalogues for private trade teas and photographs of tea plantations, possibly in Ceylon, and the offices and staff of R.M. Holborn and Sons Limited, tea and coffee merchants.

Records of the Tandjong Rubber Company Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports and accounts; and circulars.

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Records of the Tanah Datar Rubber Estates Limited, comprising articles of association and circulars to shareholders.

Records of Sungei Kari (Sumatra) Rubber Estates Limited, comprising papers regarding Harrisons and Crosfield's management of the firm's business.

Records of Sungei Bahru Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports and accounts; circulars; and financial accounts.

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Records of Sumatra Tea Estates Limited, comprising articles of association, annual reports and accounts, and circulars.

Reports, rules and regulations, manifestos, resolutions, statements, constitutions and addresses issued by the All Ceylon United Workers Congress, the Ceylon Bank Employees' Union, the Ceylon Federation of Labour, the Ceylon Workers' Congress and the Government Clerical Service Union.

Financial accounts of the South African Nectar Tea Company Limited.

Records of the Soengei Rampah Rubber and Coconut Plantations Company Limited, including articles of association, minute books, annual reports and accounts, circulars and a ledger.

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Records, 1909-1932, of Serdang Central Plantations Ltd, comprising Articles of Association, correspondence, annual reports and agreements relating to the voluntary liquidation and reconstruction.

2 letters written to Frederic Seebohm. (1) From Richard Oliver Heslop, iron and steel merchant of Akenside Hill and Newcastle upon Tyne, 8 Feb 1886. Promising to send a tracing of a map of Corbridge, Northumberland; suggests sources bearing on the history of land tenure in Northumberland. (2) From [James] Saunders, of Clapham and Westminster, 20 Oct 1892. Covering letter sent with tracings of some common field systems, discussing land tenure.

Both letters are autograph, with signatures.

Records of Sabah Timber Company Limited, including articles of association; agreements; board minutes, papers and agendas; annual reports; general reports; circulars to shareholders; reports and correspondence relating to timber production and other operational matters; reports on estate visits; financial accounts; statistics regarding timber production; inventories; papers regarding staff; plans; and photographs of war damage to the estates.

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Records of Sabah Plantations Limited, including articles of association, board minute book, annual reports, correspondence, and loan agreements.

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Records of the Ruislip Cottagers Allotments Charity, including minutes, leases, correspondence and accounts.

Papers, 1890-1987, of Melvin Perlman, comprising correspondence; research data gathered during 1959-1962 for his study on Toro marriages in Uganda; data gathered for his research on Tea Estate Workers in Uganda; and his articles and lectures.

Records of Pataling Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, minute books, annual reports, circulars, correspondence, statistics, and photographs of the production of rubber, crepe and latex.

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Records of the Ouvah Coffee Company Limited, comprising a cash book and notes on the history of the company and of coffee planting in Ceylon.

Cassette copies and transcripts of recordings of unedited interviews assembled, 1972-1974, for the radio series 'Plain Tales from the Raj', including material not included in the broadcast programmes, and comprising c200 hours of material. The 82 subjects interviewed, including men, women, adults and children, lived and worked in India from the late 19th century to Independence (1947) and the interviews cover a wide range of civilian and military experience between 1876 and 1949. Military personnel range from the Commander in Chief of the Army in India to Army privates. Civil servants of various ranks and members of the business and commercial world, for example tea planters, are also included. Women mainly comprise wives and daughters, but also include a few nurses and governesses. The project covered the lives of the British in India and, although the material touches upon the effect of the Raj on India and its indigenous inhabitants, only a small number of Indians and Eurasians were interviewed. Subjects covered include accommodation and living conditions; daily routine; social life and recreation; health and sanitation; the effects of India postings on family life; relations between the British, other Europeans, Indians and Eurasians in social and work environments; events such as riots and earthquakes; the fauna and landscape of India; and political events. Full typescript transcripts (including inaccuracies in some cases) exist for most, but not all, of the recordings.

Records of Malayalam Plantations Limited, including articles of association, minute books, annual reports, financial accounts, circulars to shareholders, inventories, and photographs of operations on the tea estates.

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Records of Malayalam Plantations (Holdings) Limited, including articles of association, annual reports, and circulars to shareholders.

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Records of Macneill and Barry Limited, general merchants and agents of Calcutta, India, comprising: records of Macneill and Company, 1908-67 (Ms 27851-63); Barry and Company, 1883-1944 (Ms 27864-73); Macneill and Barry Limited, 1905-78 (Ms 27874-86); Kilburn and Company Limited, 1942-65 (Ms 27887-91); Kilburn Properties Limited, 1960-5 (Ms 27892); Kilburn and Company (Pakistan) Limited, 1964 (Ms 27893); and Macneill and Kilburn Limited, 1963-4 (Ms 27894). The records include articles of association, deeds, annual reports, financial accounts, reports on business operations, plans, and photographs.

Records of the Lunuva (Ceylon) Tea and Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, minute books, annual reports, circulars to shareholders, statements of yields, statistics regarding the estates, maps of the estates, and correspondence.

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Records of London Sumatra Plantations Limited, including articles of association, minute books, circulars to shareholders, annual reports, financial accounts, inventories, and correspondence.

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Records of Rubber Estates of Johore Limited, including articles of association, report of visit to the Gemas estates, and circulars to shareholders.

Records of Lanadron Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, circulars to shareholders, annual reports and photographs of the rubber estates.

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Records of the Cluny Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, prospectus, report of a visit to the estate, and circulars to shareholders.

Records of the Kertasarie Tea Company Limited, including board minute book, circulars to shareholders, correspondence, and photograph album of tea and coffee estates.

Records of Harrisons Malaysian Plantations Berhad, including articles of association; annual reports; circulars to shareholders and an issue of the staff newsletter.

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Records of Harrisons Malaysian Estates Limited, including articles of association; minute book; annual reports; and circulars to shareholders.

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Operational records of Harrisons and Crosfield Limited, including reports and correspondence on work activities such as visits to plantations, building of factories, shipping, crop production, trading and patents; and papers relating to the impact of the Second World War on the estates and staff in the Far East. Crops/goods mentioned include tea, rubber, quinine, chemicals, coffee and plywood chests.

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Records of Harrisons and Crosfield (Malaya) Limited, including articles of association; notices; correspondence; minutes of meetings; memoranda; instructions to the Rubber Sales Department; papers relating to shipping; financial accounts; reports of visits to estates; papers relating to staff; papers relating to property holdings; newsletters; papers relating to the political situation in Malaysia; and papers relating to branches in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Singapore.

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Records of Harrisons and Crosfield Limited, traders in tea, coffee, rubber, timber, chemicals, and other agricultural products. The catalogue includes: corporate records (including articles of association, agreements, minutes and annual reports and accounts); share records; internal administration records (including directories of operations, directors' and general letter books); accounting records; operational records (including reports on estates); branch records (including correspondence and accounts); insurance department records; papers concerning the careers of directors; staff records; premises and property records; historical notes, photographs and plans; records of subsidiary companies, and companies for which Harrisons and Crosfield acted as secretaries and/or agents.

The archive includes records relating to Harrisons and Crosfield's activities as secretaries and/or agents for other companies. As these records were generated as part of Harrisons and Crosfield's role as secretaries and/or agents for another company, they have been catalogued as records of that particular company. However, they comprise correspondence and other papers of the head office of Harrisons and Crosfield, and supporting papers acquired by Harrisons and Crosfield (e.g. memoranda and articles of association, and annual reports and accounts) to assist in that role. The records of the companies for which Harrisons and Crosfield acted as secretaries and/or agents are arranged so that each company is followed by its subsidiary companies (if any).

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Historical notes relating to Harrisons and Crosfield, including published histories; historical notes and research papers; recollections of members of staff; photographs of staff and of the Company's operations, including on foreign plantations; newsletters and bulletins for the main company and branches abroad; advertisements; menu cards; circulars and press cuttings.

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Records of Straits Plantations Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports; prospectuses; and out-letters.

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Records of the Prang Besar Rubber Estate Limited, including articles of association; board minutes; annual reports; circulars to shareholders; report of a visit to the estate; register of rubber crop types; and papers regarding rubber yields.

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Records of the Lumut Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, report of a visit to the estates, and circulars to shareholders.

Papers of the Dusun Durian Rubber Estate Limited, comprising reports of visits to the Dusun Durian estates and circulars to shareholders.

Records of Golden Hope Plantations Limited, rubber estates management, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports; circulars to shareholders; financial accounts; and some papers of subsidiary Coconut Plantations of Perak Limited.

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Records of Djasinga Rubber and Produce Company Limited, including articles of association; board minute books; general meetings minute book; annual reports; circulars to shareholders; and photographs of tea, rubber and coffee operations on the estates.

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Records of Crosfield, Lampard and Company, managers of tea and rubber plantations in Sri Lanka, including correspondence; financial accounts; and statements of tea shipments.

Letter from Thomas Clarkson of Woodbridge, [Suffolk] to Peter Clare of Manchester, 21 Apr 1826. Thanking him for details of a successful petition: 'Yours indeed is a great triumph, when you consider the opposition, if I may so call it, of the Boroughreeve ... It was much the case at Glasgow, where the hireling [James] Macqueen, the Editor of a Glasgow paper [?Glasgow Herald], and pensioned by two of the West Indian legislatures, and a host of W. India planters owners of West Indiamen and coopers, mechanics working for that employ resided ... There is ... something so good in our cause [the abolition of slavery], that it must always make its way among a moral people.

Autograph, with signature.