Mss Eur F252/63

Diary includes:

• Folio 1 verso: statement showing details regarding the colonisation, including abortive colonies, of certain states of the Tobacco Colonies, the West Indies, Windward, and the West Indies, Leeward
• Folio 2 verso: map of British Honduras (scale 35mm to 15 miles) prepared by the Survey Department in 1956
• Folio 2a: postcard showing a colour photograph of a PAA (Pan American Airways) Super-6 Clipper passenger aircraft [loose item]
• Folio 2b: Hotel Jaragua business card showing an appointment for 26th November 1957 for an unnamed person [loose item]
• Folio 2c: “tentative” programme noting places to visit in Antigua from 30th December 1957 to 3rd January 1958 [loose item]
• Folio 2d: bill from Ross’ Point Inn, Grenada, for dinners and wine purchased on 8th March 1969, with the name “Mr Champion” at the foot of the bill [loose item]
• Folio 3 verso: colour photograph showing a scene looking out towards Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
• Folio 4 verso: photograph of the cathedral in Antigua, Guatemala
• Folio 4 verso: photograph of the arcade in Antigua, Guatemala
• Folio 5 verso: photograph of the ruins of Antigua old church (church destroyed around 1790)
• Folio 5 verso: photograph of an army of ants crossing the road near Belize
• Folio 6 verso: photograph of a cohune (Orbigyna cohun) palm
• Folio 7 verso: photograph of D.F.O.’s quarters and fire lookout (Augustine)
• Folio 7 verso: photograph of residual pine after logging (Belize Estate on Cayo Road)
• Folio 8 verso: photograph of a large chichle (chicle) tree with mahogany behind
• Folio 8 verso: photograph of a light hardwood log attacked by pinhole borers, near east Belize river
• Folio 9 verso: photograph of 2 year old taungya of Tabebuia pentaphylla at Millionario, Maya Mountains
• Folio 9 verso: photograph of east Belize river crossing, showing cohune palm and pine behind
• Folio 10 verso: photograph of Pinus hondurensis trees at San Miguel Creek crossing near Augustine
• Folio 11 verso: photograph of shelter-wood regeneration of pine at Machine Shop, Augustine
• Folio 12 verso: photograph showing an aerial view of the Melinda Pine Plantations (Stann Creek, Belize)
• Folio 12 verso: photograph showing an aerial view of the Melinda Pine Plantations with orangerie (Stann Creek, Belize)
• Folio 13 verso: photograph of Struthanthus parasitic on citrus (Belize)
• Folio 13a: cutting from an undated typescript on the subject of kail crops [loose item]
• Folio 14 verso: photograph showing results of phosphate manuring at pine planting experiments (Mango Creek)
• Folio 14 verso: photograph showing an aerial view of the effects of ploughing, draining and slagging at pine planting experiments (Mango Creek)
• Folio 15 verso: photograph of subordinates’ quarters (Columbia River)
• Folio 15 verso: photograph of a newly built forester’s house (Columbia River)
• Folio 16 verso: photograph of a Ceiba pentandra tree, measuring 50ft across buttresses (Columbia River)
• Folio 16 verso: photograph of Machaca Creek Range quarters
• Folio 17 verso: invitation card from the Acting Governor and Mrs Vickers conveying their request for the company of Sir Harry Champion at dinner on Friday 8th November (1957) at 7.45pm (and requesting R.S.V.P. to the Private Secretary, Government House, Belize)
• Folio 18 verso: photograph of mammer apple trees (Calocarpum), Gallun Jug
• Folio 18 verso: photograph of loading gear for logs at Gallun Jug
• Folio 19 verso: photograph of mahogany logs at Gallun Jug (low felling, including buttresses)
• Folio 20 verso: photograph of crooked mahogany logs awaiting export (Gallun Jug)
• Folio 20 verso: photograph of machinery for road construction at Gallun Jug
• Folio 21 verso: photograph of a Sapodilla tree with old and current tapping scars (Gallun Jug)
• Folio 22 verso: postcard colour picture of a Braniff International Airways Douglas PC 7C passenger aircraft
• Folio 24 verso: photograph of a 1954 plantation of Araucaria angustifolia pines on a good site with Pinus elliotti along a roadway (Monte Allegro)
• Folio 25 verso: photograph of harrowing between line sowings of Araucaria
• Folio 26 verso: photograph of Araucaria angustifolia pines in natural forest and the extraction of billets for mechanical pulp (Villa Prata: 19th November 1957)
• Folio 27 verso: photograph of a 1955 plantation of Araucaria angustifolia line sowings (Monte Allegro)
• Folio 27 verso: photograph showing extraction (logs with top sections showing knots) from natural forest (Vila Prata)
• Folio 28 verso: photograph of extraction billets for mechanical pulp on Unimag trucks
• Folio 29 verso: photograph of 1954 sowings of Araucaria angustifolia, 5 years old (Monte Allegro)
• Folio 30 verso: photograph of conversion work for mechanical pulp at Vila Prata natural forest
• Folio 31 verso: photograph of 25ft lateral root of 4 year old Pinus taeda planted in failed Araucaria angustifolia of the previous year
• Folio 31 verso: photograph of the roots of Araucaria, 3 to 4 years old, showing poor growth
• Folio 33 verso: photograph at the Monte Allegre Araucaria Plantation showing fifth year Pinus taeda infilling
• Folio 33 verso: photograph at the Monte Allegre Araucaria Plantation showing second year growth
• Folio 34 verso: photograph of 1955 Araucaria species of tree with reserved standard at Monte Allegre
• Folio 34 verso: photograph of a general view over afforestation area from 1952 plantation
• Folio 35 verso: colour photograph of the Sugar Loaf mountain at Rio
• Folio 36 verso: map (actual size 30cm x 27cm) of the island of Trinidad showing the locations of forests and reserves
• Folio 37 verso: cutting from an unnamed publication showing a colour reproduction of a Balisier plant
• Folio 38 recto: cutting from an unnamed publication showing and article on the Balisier plant, by G A C Herklots, Principal of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture
• Folio 38 verso: two photographs of the Catshill Field, showing (1) the Innis well (2) the office under construction
• Folio 39 verso: photograph of the Pinus caribaea plantation (Piarco, 1953) showing wide variation
• Folio 40 verso: photograph of thinning in natural regeneration in mixed evergreen to 120 stems per acre
• Folio 40 verso: photograph of wet mixed forest after regeneration fellings (1956) (C36 Arena)
• Folio 41 verso: photograph of charcoal and squared timber in Mora Forest, Rio Grande Trace
• Folio 41 verso: photograph of charcoal burning in Mora Forest, Rio Grande Trace
• Folio 42 verso: photograph of a sawmill for teak thinnings, at Brickfield, Trinidad
• Folio 42 verso: photograph of teak thinnings in bundles at the sawmill, Brickfield, Trinidad
• Folio 43 verso: photograph of 1927 plantation of Galba trees (Calophyllum braziliense) at Quarry Road
• Folio 43 verso: photograph of 1956 teak plants planted on limestone
• Folio 44 verso: photograph of a lorry in difficulty at the Pitch Lake
• Folio 45 verso: photograph of a 1957 teak nursery, with large plants having been cut back
• Folio 46 verso: photograph of a 1957 teak nursery on Charuma Road
• Folio 46 verso: photograph of teak pale fencing at Brickfield sawmill
• Folio 47 verso: photograph of a view looking over the lagoon from Castle Harbour, Bermuda
• Folio 47 verso: photograph of dead cedar trees, near Castle Harbour Hotel, Bermuda
• Folio 48 verso: postcard colour picture of a B.O.A.C Stratocruiser Speedbird passenger aeroplane
• Folio 49 recto: photograph of dead Bermuda cedar at the southern end of the island
• Folio 49 verso: photograph of the Kaieteur Falls of Potara River
• Folio 50 verso: photograph of a ballahoo boat with out-slung greenheart logs, on the Demarara River
• Folio 51 verso: photograph of Montricharda aculeata plants on the tidal mud of the Demarara River
• Folio 52 verso: photograph showing the trimming of wallaba poles
• Folio 53 verso: photograph of dressed wallaba poles at Huradaia Stelling, Demarara River
• Folio 54 verso: photograph of Amerindian Camp in Fernandez’ Lease
• Folio 55 verso: photograph of white sand banks of the Demarara River, near bauxite mines
• Folio 56 verso: two photographs of charcoal burning on Fernandez’ Lease on the Demarara River
• Folio 57 verso: two photographs of charcoal burning on Fernandez’ Lease on the Demarara River
• Folio 58 verso: photograph of Greenheart “Market” at Ikuribisi on the Essequibo River
• Folio 59 verso: photograph of Greenheart “Market” at Ikuribisi
• Folio 59 verso: photograph of the squaring of greenheart logs at Winiperu
• Folio 60 verso: photograph of a ‘big buttressed’ Mora tree, Winiperu, Essequibo River
• Folio 61 verso: photograph of the Kaieteur Falls of Potara River
• Folio 62 verso: photograph of the Potara Valley
• Folio 63 verso: photograph of Bromelaids and Clusia plants (Kaieteur Falls)
• Folio 64 verso: photograph of Barnard’s House with a party of people at Winiperu
• Folio 65 verso: photograph of a lunch spot at the Marshall Falls of Essequibo
• Folio 66 verso: photograph of 2nd season Pinus hondurensis in bracken fern at Bartica
• Folio 66 verso: photograph of 3½ year old pine, 32ft high
• Folio 67 verso: photograph of ballyhoo boats coming down Marshall Falls
• Folio 67 verso: photograph of a planted pine stripped by coushi ants
• Folio 68 recto: photograph of the Kaieteur Falls of Potara River
• Folio 68 verso: photograph showing the effect of arboricide on a bole of Catastemma commune (Bombacaccae)
• Folio 68 verso: photograph of greenheart poles at Stampa Island
• Folio 69 recto: photograph a Pentaclethra plant in flower
• Folio 69 verso: photograph of Baccolet (Bacolet) Beach in Tobago
• Folio 70 verso: colour photograph showing the embarking on boats destined for Buccoo Point (Tobago)
• Folio 72 verso: photograph of Baccolet (Bacolet) Beach, Tobago
• Folio 76 verso: photograph of a view over English Harbour, Antigua
• Folio 77 verso: photograph of a view over English Harbour (showing Cereus cacti in the foreground)
• Folio 77 verso: photograph of Cereus cactus over cotton
• Folio 79 verso: photograph of English Harbour, Antigua
• Folio 80 verso: photograph of cacti and agave on Shirley Heights, Antigua
• Folio 81 verso: photograph of a sailing vessel in English Harbour
• Folio 82 recto: photograph of the ship ss.West Indian off Antigua
• Folio 83 verso: photograph of tree ferns on old clearings on Soufriere Road
• Folio 84 verso: photograph of “camel’s back rock” (Calibishi)
• Folio 85 verso: photograph of Cyathea arborea tree ferns (Freshwater Lakes)
• Folio 86 verso: photograph of a landslip on a new road along Layou River
• Folio 86 verso: photograph of a big buttressed Sloanea tree (with “Hamid” standing beside)
• Folio 87 verso: photograph of a group of big Gommier (Dacryodes) trees
• Folio 88 verso: photograph of Layou River estuary on the west coast Dominica
• Folio 89 recto: photograph showing a patch of 15 month old Blue Mahoe
• Folio 89 recto: photograph of banana plants with Calophyllum antillarum shelter belt
• Folio 89 verso: photograph of 15 month old Swietenia macrophylla planted with Royal Palm behind, in Martinique
• Folio 92 verso: colour photograph of Castries, the capital of St. Lucia
• Folio 95 verso: untitled photograph of a quarry
• Folio 96 verso: photograph of shipbuilding in Saint Lucia
• Folio 98 verso: invitation card from His Excellency the Governor and Lady Deverell conveying their request for the company of Sir Harry and Lady Champion at dinner on Tuesday 14th January (1958) at 7.45pm (and requesting R.S.V.P. to Aide-de-Camp, Government House)
• Folio 99 verso: photograph of Grenada Harbour
• Folio 100 verso: photograph showing the results of hurricane “Janet” (dead Dacryodes trees)
• Folio 100 verso: photograph of a devastated nutmeg orchard
• Folio 101 verso: photograph of the Grenadine Islands from Sauteurs
• Folio 102 verso: photograph of the Belair Estate protected forest, after hurricane “Janet”
• Folio 102 verso: photograph of protected forest at Belair
• Folio 113a: undated bill from The Calabash, Grenada, for items purchased [loose item]
• Folio 116a: passenger coupon issued by British Overseas Airways Corporation, date stamped 20th February 1969, and showing the name of Lady Champion entered as passenger [loose item]
• Folio 116b: undated travel itinerary issued by E. H. Munday & Co. Ltd., Passenger Agents, London, showing times of arrival and departure from London Heathrow Airport, Grenada Airport and Barbados Airport [loose item]
• Folio 117 recto: map showing Central America and Cuba, actual size 31cm by 24cm [loose item]