| Description | Concerning the history of the Montserrat Company and the Sturge family's involvement with the Island, apparently collected by Thomas Twyman and added to later by Anthony Wilson.
Includes:-
Returns of rainfall in Antigua, 1890.
Letter about visit of Prince of Wales to Montserrat, 1920.
Letters from Col. H. W. Feilden, notes and article concerning the Diablotin and other bird in the Redondas [West Indies], 1903-22.
Report by T. A. Twyman on visit to USA to promote to sale of limes, 1934.
Notes on 'the rise of the Montserrat Co.', 1936.
Correspondence of T. A. Twyman with Mary Sturge Gretton of Burford re. Sturge family and Montserrat, 1936-46, including typed transcripts of Sturge Family letters (1855-1880).
Correspondence with BBC about lime juice and scurvy, 1941.
Text of broadcast by T. A. Twyman on radio Montserrat about Sea Island Cotton, 1954.
Letter with information on Sturge family history from Evelyn Sturge to Anthony WIlson, 1953. |