| Description | Five-page handwritten document where Manning explains how he was connected to the Island of Matacong from 1866 through the marriage of Isaacs' daughter. Discusses Fisher and Randalls leases from Isaacs, the local inhabitants, Richard Philpotts and the Matacong and North West African Co Ltd, proposal to sell the Island to a French syndicate, French soldiers on the island, money paid to the English Government for duties. Discusses how Isaacs was made a chief and 'he was, as you may say, the King of the Island'. Discusses workers on the island and what the island was like when Isaacs lived there. |