Records of the South Sea Company
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
Subjects: Slave trade; Colonies; Economic conditions; South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720; Foreign relations
Description: Correspondence (1738-1739) of company representatives relating to financial negotiations with the Spanish court and photocopies of investors' authorizations to their agents for transactions involving South Sea Company stock.  Agents represented include John Conduitt, John Grigsby, Robert Knight, and Charles Lockyer.
Notes: Open to research.

In part, negative photocopies produced with the permission of Charles D. Faulkner. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1939.

British company founded in 1711 to trade, chiefly in slaves, with Spanish America.  The resulting speculation mania that led to ruin for many investors was known as the South Sea Bubble.  Company dissolved in 1753.

Collection material in English.

Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.