Letter from Bottomley to Treasury - 14th December 1971 - financial aid
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Title
Letter from Bottomley to Treasury - 14th December 1971 - financial aid
FCO 63/882 items 129, 131, 175-177 pages 71-78, 140, 142
Subject
Relief/aid
Description
Offical letter sent by Bottomley to Treasury setting out the situation in St Vincent and requesting that HMG provide authorisation to use up to £5000 on essential supplies.
Also includes drafts and notices of conveyance of said drafts, and the minutes on which they are based.
Also includes drafts and notices of conveyance of said drafts, and the minutes on which they are based.
Creator
FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK)
Publisher
The National Archives (UK)
Date
14th December 1971
Contributor
JRA Bottomley
Rights
These files are made available by The National Archives via Discovery, the full entry for this item can be found here.
The full item FCO 63/882 was digitised using funds from the Curating Crises project.
These files are hosted in the Curating Crises database with permission from The National Archives under the copyright terms presented here.
The full item FCO 63/882 was digitised using funds from the Curating Crises project.
These files are hosted in the Curating Crises database with permission from The National Archives under the copyright terms presented here.
Format
JPG
Language
English
Type
Letter
Identifier
Curating_Crises_#467
FCO 63/ 882
Coverage
The 1971 volcanic eruption of La Soufrière St Vincent.
Letter Item Type Metadata
Date Sent
14th December 1971
To
EH Boothroyd (Treasury)
From
JRA Bottomley
Files
Collection
Citation
FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK), “Letter from Bottomley to Treasury - 14th December 1971 - financial aid,” Curating Crises, accessed January 19, 2026, https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/items/show/467.
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Item Relations
| This Item | Relation | Item: Handwritten note from Newsam to Roberts - 9th December 1971 - Negotiating access to funds for pre-emptive measures |
| This Item | Relation | Item: Letter from Newsam to Marshall (FPAD) - Pre-disaster funding |
| Item: Letters of various authorships - 17th - 20th December 1971 - discussion of special financial gift for St Vincent | Relation | This Item |
| Item: Telegram 221 from Mitchell to FCO - 20th December 1971 - Response to DevDiv offer of financial aid | Relation | This Item |
| Item: Letter from Smith to Boothroyd - 29th December 1971 - financial aid | Relation | This Item |
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