| Description | The small file of correspondence from representatives of the Royal Society to staff at the Colonial Office. This includes letters from Martin Holdgate [Convener of the Tristan da Cunha study group] to R G Pettitt, at the Colonial Office asking for information in order to complete an Encyclopaedia Britannica entry, as well as a letter from Dr D C Martin [Executive Secretary] informing C G Eastwood, Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonial Office about the Royal Society's future plans for research on the Tristan Island group which leads to more correspondence between Holdgate and Pettitt. Another correspondent from the Colonial Office was Mr H G [Jerry] Stableford, who took observations on behalf of the Society, when he returned to work on Tristan da Cunha in 1963. |