MS 681 27
Reference code
MS 681 27
Title
Moulton-Barrett family papers: Printed material relating to the Barrett family and Jamaica
Level
Series
Date
1810-2000
Extent & medium
73 items (volumes)
Content description
A selection of printed material about Jamaica from Edward R. Moulton-Barrett's library. Many have inscriptions and bookplates of various members of the Moulton-Barrett family in Jamaica and England, including: Elizabeth Barrett Williams, George Goodin Barrett, Richard Barrett, Edward Samuel Moulton-Barrett, Edward George Barrett, Edward Alfred Moulton-Barrett, Edward Francis Moulton-Barrett, Jose Moulton-Barrett and Edward Richard Moulton-Barrett. Catalogued separately on ECL catalogue - Shelfmarks are given in brackets:
[item] The new Jamaica almanac, and register, for the year of our Lord 1810 (Kn.1.01)
[item] The Jamaica almanack for the year 1820 (Kn.1.02)
[item] The West Indies as they are, or, A real picture of slavery by Richard Bickell, 1825 (Kn.1.03)
[item] Conversations on botany, 1825 (Kn.1.04)
[item] The Jamaica almanack for the year 1826 (Kn.1.05)
[item] The Jamaica almanack for the year 1832 (Kn.1.06)
[item] Journal of a West India proprietor by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 1834 (Kn.1.07)
[item] 18 bound issues of Bravo's Kingston Journal, 1840 (Kn.1.08)
[item] The Jamaica almanack for the year 1840 compiled by Robert Aird Sherlock (Kn.1.09)
[item] The Jamaica almanack for the year 1841 compiled by Robert Aird Sherlock (Kn.1.10)
[item] The Jamaica almanack for the year 1842 compiled by William Cathcart (Kn.1.11)
[item] The Jamaica almanack for the year 1845 compiled by William Cathcart (Kn.1.12)
[item] Six essays on the best mode of establishing and conducting industrial schools by Evelyn Lyndon Howard et al., 1845 (Kn.1.13)
[item] Twenty-nine years in the West Indies and Central Africa by Hope Masterton Waddell, 1863 (Kn.1.14)
[items] Two copies of In old St. James compiled by Joseph Shore, 1911 (Kn.1.16 and Kn.1.17)
[item] Monumental inscriptions of Jamaica compiled by Philip Wright, 1966 (Kn.1.18)
[items] Seven half maroon grained leather volumes containing Parliamentary Papers, primarily relating to Jamaica and the West Indies (Kn.1.19Kn.1.25), including 'Papers relative to slave emancipation in Jamaica. Laid before parliament and printed by order of The Honourable House of Assembly', 1836, and other papers regarding the abolition of slavery
[item] Jeanette Marks: The Family of the Barrett – a colonial romance (1938) Bookplate of Edward R Moulton-Barrett (Kn. 1.26)
[item] R A Barrett: The Barretts of Jamaica: the family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2000)
[items] Kelley, Hudson et al.: The Brownings’ Correspondence Vols. 1-31, 1809-1865 (1984-2025 and on-going)
Note: A range of other books given by Edward Richard Moulton-Barrett to ECL (including some owned by Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett, or given by her with inscriptions) have been catalogued on ECL catalogue.
[item] The new Jamaica almanac, and register, for the year of our Lord 1810 (Kn.1.01)
[item] The Jamaica almanack for the year 1820 (Kn.1.02)
[item] The West Indies as they are, or, A real picture of slavery by Richard Bickell, 1825 (Kn.1.03)
[item] Conversations on botany, 1825 (Kn.1.04)
[item] The Jamaica almanack for the year 1826 (Kn.1.05)
[item] The Jamaica almanack for the year 1832 (Kn.1.06)
[item] Journal of a West India proprietor by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 1834 (Kn.1.07)
[item] 18 bound issues of Bravo's Kingston Journal, 1840 (Kn.1.08)
[item] The Jamaica almanack for the year 1840 compiled by Robert Aird Sherlock (Kn.1.09)
[item] The Jamaica almanack for the year 1841 compiled by Robert Aird Sherlock (Kn.1.10)
[item] The Jamaica almanack for the year 1842 compiled by William Cathcart (Kn.1.11)
[item] The Jamaica almanack for the year 1845 compiled by William Cathcart (Kn.1.12)
[item] Six essays on the best mode of establishing and conducting industrial schools by Evelyn Lyndon Howard et al., 1845 (Kn.1.13)
[item] Twenty-nine years in the West Indies and Central Africa by Hope Masterton Waddell, 1863 (Kn.1.14)
[items] Two copies of In old St. James compiled by Joseph Shore, 1911 (Kn.1.16 and Kn.1.17)
[item] Monumental inscriptions of Jamaica compiled by Philip Wright, 1966 (Kn.1.18)
[items] Seven half maroon grained leather volumes containing Parliamentary Papers, primarily relating to Jamaica and the West Indies (Kn.1.19Kn.1.25), including 'Papers relative to slave emancipation in Jamaica. Laid before parliament and printed by order of The Honourable House of Assembly', 1836, and other papers regarding the abolition of slavery
[item] Jeanette Marks: The Family of the Barrett – a colonial romance (1938) Bookplate of Edward R Moulton-Barrett (Kn. 1.26)
[item] R A Barrett: The Barretts of Jamaica: the family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2000)
[items] Kelley, Hudson et al.: The Brownings’ Correspondence Vols. 1-31, 1809-1865 (1984-2025 and on-going)
Note: A range of other books given by Edward Richard Moulton-Barrett to ECL (including some owned by Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett, or given by her with inscriptions) have been catalogued on ECL catalogue.
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