Archive of 104 documents relating to the Jamaican plantations of Edward Gregory Morant-Gale and family before and after the Slavery Abolition Act including: letters; documents relating to William Gale's will; papers relating to York plantation and Gale's Valley plantation 1780-1914 [69 items] and papers relating to Mount Hindmost and St Jago and Paisley Pens, 1783-1887 [20 items]; general papers relating to the Jamaican estates of Edward Gregory Morant-Gale, 1799-1843 [12 items].
Documents consisting of letters, indentures on vellum; lists of slaves; stock accounts; estate accounts; crops and 'boiling and distillery house'accounts.
See also EUL MS 44. These kinds of papers have particular potential for research in cultural geography and area studies, history and medical humanities.