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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D239/M/E/20555 |
| Title | Philip Gibbes to Sir William FitzHerbert |
| Date | 9 Jun 1788 |
| Description | "I have seen so much inattention in the gentlemen of Barbados to the houses of their negroes and I reproach myself so much for my own neglect in this particular that I intend, for conscience sake, and for the sake of example, to send out two or three frames of houses to be erected ... Your feelings I know to be the same as mine upon this subject. I will therefore send you the draft of the house I propose to have framed ..." |
| Extent | 1 item |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Turners Hall sugar plantation, Barbados |
| FitzHerbert family of Tissington |
| Copies | A digital copy of this item can be viewed on the public computers at the record office in the Digital Repository, Archive Copies (arranged by reference) folder. |
| Microfilm M701 |
| Term | Sugar plantations |
| British Empire |
| Colonialism |