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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Records of the South Sea Company, 1712-1753</title>
  </titleInfo>
  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>South Sea Company</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
    </role>
  </name>
  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
  </originInfo>
  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
  </language>
  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>105</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>In part, negative photocopies produced with the permission of Charles D. Faulkner. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1939.</note>
  <note>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.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Conduitt, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1688-1737</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grigsby, John</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Knight, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1675-1744</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lockyer, Charles</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Slave trade</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Economic conditions</topic>
    <temporal>18th century</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Spain</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Spain</geographic>
    <topic>Colonies</topic>
    <geographic>America</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Spain</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
  </subject>
  <identifier type="lccn">mm 82004163</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
  <recordInfo>
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    <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">821130</recordCreationDate>
    <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260227111712.0</recordChangeDate>
    <recordIdentifier source="DLC">mm 82004163 </recordIdentifier>
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