Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Davis had a life-long interest in the history of the West Indies and more specifically of Barbados, and this collection comprises a vast body of material gathered by him from archives in Britain, the Caribbean and Europe. He contributed many historical articles to newspapers and periodicals in British Guiana [Guyana], Barbados and the United States. His intention to compose a comprehensive history of the West Indies was frustrated by ill health. Titles and captions, including the names of...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

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Extracts from the archives, news cuttings and various original documents. They appear to have been compiled by Frederick Hardyman Parker, probably as research for a projected history of British Honduras. Some were likely collected by his father, William Alexander Parker, Chief Justice of British Honduras.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

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152 x 111 mm. A view looking across a banana plantation near Stann Creek with mountains in the distance.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

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Papers concerning regulations and geological research in British Honduras.

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A large collection of 14 notebooks and loose sheets, many extracting official sources from the National Archives and the British Library.

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115 x 83 mm. Showing a European man dressed in white, paddling a canoe on the river.

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152 x 101 mm. Showing a herd of fenced cattle with jungle in the background and mounted ranch hands in the foreground.

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152 x 102 mm. Showing cattle and horses grazing on cleared land. Written in ink on the front of the print is 'Note the Cahoun palms' of which several specimens are visible.

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152 x 101 mm. Showing bullock teams dragging carts loaded with mahogany trunks under the charge of the Honduran estate workers.

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Extracts from the archives, news cuttings and various original documents. They appear to have been compiled by Frederick Hardyman Parker, probably as research for a projected history of British Honduras. Some were likely collected by his father, William Alexander Parker, Chief Justice of British Honduras.

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These include ‘The report of the Council of Jamaica respecting the Mosquito Shore, 1774,’ and the judgement in the Supreme Court of 'Amos Gabourel & Anor v. Henry A. Gabourel', 1886. There are original papers (15 in all) taken from Letter Books for the years 1775-77 and 1822.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents The file contains extracts from treaties and more particularly from a report made by the King’s Advocate, Sir C. Robinson, on 8 July 1825, containing an opinion on the treaties of 1773 and 1786, together with a report by the King’s Advocate to the Foreign Office on 13 February 1828, with respect to the right of Great Britain to the British settlements in the Bay of Honduras. There are also copies of documents appointing officials to British Honduras, including a document signed by Edward...

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Major Thomas Bradley attempted to assume command of the garrison in Honduras on 22 May 1820 and was placed under arrest by Arthur. In 1837, Bradley presented a petition to Parliament charging him with having ‘not only usurped military power, but with having exercised that power in an inhuman and revolting manner’ in the punishment of Gunner Ingram. These files relate to the accusation and Arthur's defence.

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110 x 80 mm.

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127 x 101 mm. Showing an unidentified part of the waterfront at Belize City with buildings in the background and a young boy facing the camera in the foreground.

Scope and Contents 180 x 105 mm. Albumen print inserted into Fowler's ‘A narrative of a journey across the unexplored portion of the British Honduras’ (1879), showing a group of men standing amid tropical vegetation. In 1878 a sugar planter named Drake and a miner named Worth led an exhibition to the Cockscomb Range in the hope of discovering mineral resources. As this met with little success they set off for a second time, this time under the leadership of Henry Fowler, on 23 November 1878,...

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A collection of prints measuring approximately 125 x 100 mm. (Six of the photographs are postcards by Avery measuring approximately 135 x 85 mm). The prints are captioned on the reverse. The photographs, which show scenes in and around Belize City and Stann Creek (also known as Dangriga) as well as events during the coronation celebrations for George V in 1911, are sharply defined and of professional quality.

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127 x 101 mm. Showing the 'International Hotel' in Belize City, a three-storey wooden frame building with verandahs.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...