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Papers of Sir John Emmott Barlow

Home Correspondence 1908-1914.

2/1: 7 JUL 1908 – 31 MAR 1910.

Comprising: letter to John Burns, President of the Board of Trade; letters to W. H. Brooks relating to the management of Torkington, Bramhall (near Stockport, Cheshire) and Bryn Eirias estates; letters to J. M. Allinson and William MacDonald, Thomas Barlow & Bro., Manchester office, relating to Far Eastern agency business; letters to E. Brammall, Barlow & Co., Singapore; letters to H. W. Sutcliffe, Barlow & Co., Calcutta; letters to Thomas B. Silcock, MP, chairman of Sekong Rubber Company Ltd and Sungei Krian Rubber Estate Ltd; letter to Sir Arthur A. Haworth, MP, regarding formation of the Muar River Rubber Company Ltd; general business correspondence. [Fragile – handle with care].

 

2/2: 1 APR 1910 – 12 FEB 1914.

Comprising: letter to John Burns, President of the Board of Trade; letter to Lewis (later Viscount) Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies; letters to Percy and Frank Barlow re purchase and sale of plantation company shares; letters to W. H. Brooks regarding farm management at Bradwall, Bryn Erias and Torkington; correspondence relating to the Llandudno & Colwyn Bay Light Railway; letters to J. M. Allinson and William MacDonald, relating to agency business in the Far East; letters to Charles P. Allen, MP, Director of Bradwall (F.M.S.) Rubber Estate Ltd; letters relating to share subscriptions in the Badek Rubber Estate Ltd; letter to Sir Henry Seymour King, MP, concerning possible formation of new tea plantation company out of the Balijoori and Jiajuri estates, Upper Assam; letters to Thomas B. Silcock, concerning the Sekong and Sungei Krian Rubber Estates; general business correspondence. [Fragile – handle with care].