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  <dc:title>Volume marked '63', labelled 'Confidential papers on the West India question'</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Divided into sections, with contents as follows:
- Letters recording the meeting of the abolitionists with Mr Canning, Jun 1823
- Minutes of the abolitionists, meeting at Gloucester House, Feb 1824. Extracts from Lord Bathurst's letters to Wilmot Horton, 1824
- Copy Wilmot Horton letters to - and Mr Canning, Jan-Feb 1824
- Confidential lithograph of the West India committee deliberations, with a confidential memo from Maj Moody and Wilmot Horton's minute on this
- Letter to Mr Henry Drummond, Sep 1824
- Minute comparing the circular of the 9th July with the West India committee's recommendations
- Remarks on the Trinidad returns, 1825
- Private letters of Sir Ralph Woodford on the Order in Council, Feb 1826
- Differences between the Trinidad Order and the Demerara Ordinance, 1826
- Minutes on the state of the 'slave' [enslaved persons] question, 1825 and 1826
- Despatch and enclosure from Mr Ward to Mr (Secretary) Canning on sugar cultivation by free labour, addressed from Mexico, Mar 1826
- Minutes and correspondence addressed by Wilmot Horton to Lord Bathurst, Jan-Oct 1826</dc:description>
  <dc:date>Jun 1823-Oct 1826</dc:date>
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