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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/G/AC 16/97
TitleLetter from Mrs S. A. Tregellis, Plymouth to Colonel Hughes enclosing her translation of letter from Dasala, Havana to Mr Gollmer
Extent2 items
Date1855
Description/97A Letter, dated 3 December, from Mrs Tregellis, 6 Portland Square: refers to account of Dasala [a West African enslaved man in Havana] in the [CMS] Intelligencer; 'Mr Prideaux has lately had an official letter informing him that our Government will not grant any pecuniary aid on future occasions for the return to Africa of Negroes from Cuba'. Encloses copy of her translation of a letter from Dasala to Mr Gollmer.

/97B Mrs Tregellis' translation of a letter, dated 16 June 1835, from Dasala, Havana to Mr Gollmer [dictated to] Martin Garro, 'Free Black' 'living in the house of Sebro Corde de Fernadino'; with note explaining the composition of Dasala's letter (copy)
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