Identity area
Reference code
Slavery/Box 8/91
Unique identifier
GB 275 Slavery/Box 8/91
Title
William Sutherland. Letter to Perrin.
Date(s)
- 9 January 1803 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
4 pages; paper
Context area
Name of creator
(fl 1780-1804)
Biographical history
Perrin's planting attorney from 1780 to 1804.
Repository
Archival history
Formerly D239/M/E/17938, Derbyshire Record Office.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Offers updates on Perrin’s estates, and notes that the bull that recently died was reluctant to eat Jamaican grass. Laments the depressed state of the markets: ‘[I]t is scarcely possible that things can be worse than they are at present.’ Manuscript.