*This is an interim listing.*


Place names mentioned in addresses: London, Elmwood, Bath, Bedford, Bristol, Liverpool, Lancaster, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin, Madeira, St Vincent, Grenada, Barbados, Dominica, Antigua, Trinidad, Tobago, Jamaica, St Barts [Saint Barthelemy], Guadeloupe.

Folder 1: Undated letters Incl. James Bruce, Drysdale, A. Lawrence, Grant, Robert Lang.


Folder 2: Personal correspondence of Philip Lucas, 1801-5 Incl. James Bruce, Thomas Fairbairn, Captain Brown, Robert Dickinson, Gilbert Robinson, Robert Lang.


Folder 3: Personal correspondence of Philip Lucas, 1806-7 Incl. James Bruce, Nathaniel Snell, George Case, George Younghusband, John Peebles, P. Purcell, Hamilton, Thomas Brown, Gilbert Robertson, R. Macdonald, John Campbell, George Morrison, Archibald Leitch, John and Robert Ker, John Bean, Alexander Fraser, Johnson Littledale NB: contains letter about ‘Negro Harry’; letter from George Case, August 1806, details the arrival of the Ships Eliza and Bess carrying 426 enslaved people from Old Calabar [i.e. Nigeria].


Folder 4: Personal correspondence of Philip Lucas, 1808-9 Incl. Robert Lang, Alexander Fraser, P. Bourdieu, Samuel Emery, Lang Turning Co, Charles Alexander Francklyn, A. Atkins, John Campbell, Adam Ferrie, Alexander Campbell, J. Brown Collymore, Captain Brown, John Bolton, James Wilson, James Bruce. NB: Lang, Turing and Co traded between 1800-5, Lang and Turing from 1805, from 1811 Robert Lang and Co, Lang, Chauncy and Lucas from 1820, Chauncy and Lang from 1850.


Folder 5: Personal correspondence of Philip Lucas, 1810-19 Incl. B. Beddie, Robert Lang, James Bruce, Thomas Cayley, Harriet Lucas, Ann Maria Beesley, Charles Alexander Francklyn, George Bolton, Littledale, Parkinson and Co, John Gordon, John Campbell, Hepburn, James Wilson, John Snell, James Thornton, John Brickwood, George Baillie, P. Latham, Pomeroy McGhie, James McCaul, James Vanloo.


Folder 6: Personal correspondence of Philip Lucas, 1820-30. Incl. James Vanloo, James Wilson, Steven Newman, William May, Robert Lang, John Dabrell, John Wagstaff, Thomas Ghiverson NB: Philip Lucas died c. 1830.


Folder 7: Undated business correspondence. Incl. Dr Casich, John Forgil, R. Wingfield.


Folder 8: Business correspondence, 1803-6. Incl. Thomas Lynch, Robert Ker, Archibald Campbell, Alexander Shannon, George Bolton, Francis Wilocke, James Bruce, Samuel Greathead, James Sinn, John Shagg, Gilbert Munro, R. Carpenter, George Metcalfe, James Brown, Peter Brancker, Livingstone Co, Evan Baillie, McClure and Cummins Co, Lang Turing Co, Robert Dunbar.


Folder 9: Business correspondence, 1807-8. Incl. Robert Erving, Dowd and Co, McClure and Cummins Co, J.M. Collier, Gabriel James, J. Eccles, John Campbell, Colin Campbell, Alexander Clunes, Lang Turing Co, R.J. Wingfield, John Bean, James Harvey, William Burdon, James Mahon, George Aberdeen, George Case, William Boyd, Robert Lang, Johnson Littledale, Jenkin Jones, William Paterson, Richard Landreth, James Bontein.
NB: letters from John Bean, 1807-8, detailing the traffic of enslaved people from parts of Africa and discussing plans for their sale. Ships included: Agreeable, (240x250), Aurora (270x 290), Constance (200), Eliza (150), Bess, Molly, and Alexander. Letter from Gabriel James discussing the transport of 195 enslaved people onboard the Stork.


Folder 10: Business correspondence, 1809-10. Incl. James Bontein, George Bolton, letters from John, Fraser, Alexander Campbell on behalf of Campbell and Co, William Paterson, Richard Landreth, George Gun Munro, James Grant, John McInnes, Robert Lang, James George, Alexander Steward, A.M. Beesley.


Folder 11: Business correspondence, 1811-25. Incl. C.A. Francklyn, James McCaul, Parkinson and Co, B.M. Robertson, H.L. Lindow, James Bruce, James Nairne, A. Thomson, Alexander Fraser, John Campbell, James Grant, Henry Haffey, Joseph Cage, James Vanloo, William Holden, NB: letter of 1814 mentions the selling of the coffee plantation of Mr Aberdeen to Mr Morrison with 45 enslaved people as well as mules, cattle, and sheep.


Folder 12: Caribbean receipts Incl. exchanges (currency), shipping receipts (delivery of goods), Annuities from shares, alcohol duty exemptions.


Folder 13: Caribbean business, 1802-16, 1820-26 Incl. account summaries, legal documents (law of merchants, case notes), acts of Saint Vincent incl. setting up a militia, petitions. NB: balance sheet of ‘African Books’ 1808; 1822 minutes of West India merchants.


Folder 14: Papers relating to the sale of enslaved peoples, commodities and matters relating to Clare Valley estate Incl. accounts and sales of sugar and rum (P. Lucas owned two demerara sugar plantations at Canefields and Golden Fleece on British Guinea [i.e. Guyana]), doctor’s bills for attending to sick enslaved persons incl inoculations against small pox, agreement between Charles Francklyn and P. Lucas for ‘carrying on the African business’ (1806), agreement between Lucas and Bourdieu over 249 enslaved people on the ship Margaret (1802), list of buyers of 288 enslaved peole from the ship Molly (1806), accounts from Clare Valley estate (plantation owned by William and then his son John Snell), list of enslaved people on Clare Valley estate (1807, 1810), amount of rum and sugar produced on the estate.


Folder 15: James Bruce papers (the Caribbean and England) Incl: James Bruce’s will, details of his estate, business accounts, bills from London. James Bruce was Philip Lucas’ business partner. He co-owned the Belvidere estate on St Vincent’s. Lucas was one of the executors of Bruce’s will after he died c.1815.


Folder 16: Carribean papers relating to David Boyd, Thomas Brundreth, John Campbell, John Williamson, William Jones, Joseph Warner, William Capner Incl: bills, accounts, interest payments, dividends from Lucas.


Folder 17: Lucas papers relating to the Caribbean, 1802-11. Incl: Accounts with Lucas, ‘African account of Lucas with Lang Turing’, appointment of Lucas as deputy treasurer of St Vincent, bills, bond with David Boyd, currency exchanges, case between the privateers v Zephyr 1806, list of debts owed by Lucas, agreements between Lucas and Johnson Littledale.