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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)JCLAdd/34-35
TitleLetters from Joseph Chamberlain to Sir Augustus Hemming (1841-1907, Colonial Governor), Government House, Jamaica, and the Dean [of Westminster Abbey], 22 and 23 February. With envelope
Extent3 items
Date1901
Description2 letters from the Colonial Office [London]

He writes to the Dean (22 February) enclosing a letter of introduction addressed to Sir Augustus Hemming [Governor of Jamaica, 1898-1904] for his daughter, Mrs Henry Woods who is undertaking a visit to the West Indies (23 February). In the letter of introduction he describes Mrs Woods as 'the daughter of the Dean of Westminster and the wife of the ex-President of Trinity College, Oxford'. He says he will be glad if Hemming 'can do anything to make her stay on the island a pleasant one'
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