A photocopy of a letter of 5 March 1976 regarding phosphate production in Florida.

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.

Enclosing newspaper cuttings re his official duties as British Consul in Pittsburgh.

Letters from Chicago and Detroit, enclosing newspaper cuttings: includes letters to and from Spencer Childers (6, 22); letters to Childers from H.B. Shattuck, 1878 (2), Fanny Broughton, 1879 (4), W.M. Wilkinson, 1879-85 (6, 21, 26, 28), John Burton, 1883 (42, enclosing letter from G.N. Nash 43, G.R. Blanchard, 1886, 44-5).

Originals and transcripts of letters between MAR and his mother, and later between him and his wife, Gladys.

Draft notes including: Magna Carta; William II; Henry I; medieval Scotland and Ireland; the Reformation; the American colonies; Sir Robert Walpole, 1737 - 1742; America, the western advance; the American Civil War; the battle of Gettysburg.Annotated.

Draft proofs of chapters including: Wyclif; Hanoverian England; Sir Robert Walpole; the war government of William Pitt, 1756 - 1762; George III; additional notes on King John and Magna Carta; the rising of 1745; the government of the Lancastrians in the fifteenth century; Pitt and America, 1756 - 1762; the Peace of Paris, 1763; Richard I.annotated.

Draft chapters including: post-war England, 1815 - 1820; the monarchy and the divorce, 1820 - 1822; Tory England, 1822 - 1827; the collapse of eighteenth-century England; the passing of the Great Reform Bill, 1830 - 1832; the colonies; England and the American colonies, 1713 - 1754; England and the American colonies, 1754 - 1765; the history of England, 1642 - 1660; Joan of Arc.annotated.

Draft chapters on the Long Parliament; the American war of Independence; Charles I.Annotated.

Draft chapters including: Charles I; the Commonwealth; the American War of Independence, 1778 - 1781; the story of the common law.Annotated.

Draft chapters including: the American War of Independence - the treaty of peace and the loyalists; the Restoration; England, 1832 - 1837; Charles II; England, 1837 - 1846.Annotated.

53 folios of handwritten notes on Henry VIII by John Wheldon [former literary assistant to WSC], annotated by WSC. Annotated typescript of chapters on the American Civil War, 1862 - 1864.

Draft chapters including: Queen Anne; the United States, 1783 - 1789; the United States, 1789 - 1793.Annotated.

Draft chapters including: South Africa; America and the French Revolution; the United States, 1797 - 1801; Jeffersonian democracy, 1801 - 1805; notes on the theme of each book; the war of 1812 [Canada]; Canada, 1660 - 1780; Canada, 1780 - 1812; slavery and the United States; the United States, 1815 - 1837.Annotated.

Draft chapters: mainly on the background to and events of the American Civil War, 1840 - 1864; with a single chapter on the history of New Zealand.Annotated.