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Senate House Library, University of London

Memorandum concerning transit routes through Central America


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 719

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Memorandum concerning transit routes through Central America

Date(s): [1850]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 9 leaves

Name of creator(s): Possibly: Fyler | George | fl 1850

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

No information available at present.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of a memorandum [by George Fyler] entitled 'Further memorandum as to the most eligible transit route for mails, passengers & traffic through Mosquito & Costa Rica (being a rider to the memorandum of Dec 5th 1849) and directed to consider the shackles which now impede the development of trade with Central America, the means available for their removal and the concentration of the British Mails and traffic to and from Australia as also the Pacific generally... Presented to the Right Honourable Henry Labouchère [President of the Board of Trade], 29 Jan 1850. The manuscript memorandum suggests a route via Greytown (now San Juan del Norte), River St. John, Lake Nicaragua, and by road, eventually by canal, from the lake to Port Salinas, and indicates the advantages of the route, such as quicker mail services and avoidance of the influence of the United States at Panama.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

13" x 8". The leaves are tied with green tape.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bought from M. Lewis in 1968.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Trade
Transport infrastructure

Personal names
Fyler | George | fl 1850
Labouchère | Henry | 1798-1869 | 1st Baron Taunton | politician x Taunton | 1st Baron x Labouchere | Henry

Corporate names

Places
Australia | Oceania
Lake Nicaragua | Nicaragua | Central America
Mosquito Coast | Honduras | Central America
Panama | Central America
Salinas Bay | Costa Rica | Central America
San Juan del Norte | Nicaragua | Central America
St John, river | Nicaragua | Central America
Greytown x San Juan del Norte
Asia and the Pacific