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Description: | Assembly of photocopied pages from the diary of Lady Wickham, together with a typed transcript of the diary, and an introduction to the volume, consisting of an account of the career of her husband, Sir Henry Wickham, scientist and explorer commissioned by the India Office in 1876 to secure rubber seeds from the Tapajos region of Brazil for introduction to British territories in India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The diary contains an account of the expedition in Brazil, and was of interest to the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company because it contained new evidence about the establishment of the rubber plantation industry. Internal evidence indicates that this volume had been amongst the papers of R. Watson, employee in the Advertising Department at Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company (Great Britain) Limited | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | 1937 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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