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Actions	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Title Letter Sir Charles Bright to Edward Bright Reference UK0108 SC MSS 020/II/68 Date 1870-07-07 Scope and Content Written from Kingston. About to leave for Cuba. Giving details of plan for laying cable from Cienfuegos to Santiago. Needs Edward to send out another man to lay the land lines on Demerara, as two have been sent home and one has died of yellow fever. Mr Bernard can draw on the Company to pay for the poles. Will write from Havana. Physical description Number of pieces: 1, Pages/folios: 4pp Language English. Subject Cable ships, Cable laying, Cuba Conditions governing access Open access Level of description file Hierarchy browser 110000003 Special Collection Manuscripts contains 321 parts UK0108 SC MSS 020 Papers of Sir Charles Tilston Bright contains 2 parts UK0108 SC MSS 020/II Correspondence and Reports relating to the West Indies and Panama Telegraph contains 94 parts UK0108 SC MSS 020/II/68 Letter Sir Charles Bright to Edward Bright

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Letter Sir Charles Bright to Edward Bright
Reference
UK0108 SC MSS 020/II/68
Date
1870-07-07
Scope and Content
Written from Kingston. About to leave for Cuba. Giving details of plan for laying cable from Cienfuegos to Santiago. Needs Edward to send out another man to lay the land lines on Demerara, as two have been sent home and one has died of yellow fever. Mr Bernard can draw on the Company to pay for the poles. Will write from Havana.
Physical description
Number of pieces: 1, Pages/folios: 4pp
Language
English.
Subject
Cable ships, Cable laying, Cuba
Conditions governing access
Open access
Level of description
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