Letters to Butterfield & Swire

Bound volume of copies of letters to Butterfield & Swire regarding House and China Navigation Company business, Taikoo Sugar Refinery management including competition with Jardine Matheson & Co, sugar prices and selling policies, general advice from John Samuel Swire to his Eastern partners...

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Archive & Special Collections JSS/1/1/8 Open

Order number: JSS Box 1177
Date(s) of creation: 24 Apr 1887-26 Sep 1888
Level: File
Format: Archive           

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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with JSS Box 1177
callnumber JSS/1/1/8
callnumber_txt JSS/1/1/8
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scb_alt_ref_no JSSI 1/8
prefix_number 8
title Letters to Butterfield & Swire
scb_date_creation 24 Apr 1887-26 Sep 1888
scb_level File
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format Archive
description Bound volume of copies of letters to Butterfield & Swire regarding House and China Navigation Company business, Taikoo Sugar Refinery management including competition with Jardine Matheson & Co, sugar prices and selling policies, general advice from John Samuel Swire to his Eastern partners on handling affairs and in May 1888 the suggestion of establishing a rice mill at Quarry Bay [Hong Kong]; other subjects and correspondents include Holt's relating to Conference and Ocean Steamship Company affairs, and Australian trade, particularly immigration restrictions affecting China-Australian routes.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright is owned by John Swire & Sons, Ltd, 59 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AJ
scb_use_restrictions Copying for personal research purposes is permitted. Please contact the archivist for all publication requests.
language English
language_search English
scb_finding_aids Paper handlist available
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hierarchy_sequence JSS.001.001.008

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