JN72/16

Letter from H C Janes to Reverend Keith Tucker, Calabar College, Kingston, Jamaica. Discussion of tour of West Indies.

21 May 1951

From: 1951 To: 1951

Dear Mr Tucker, Dr Angus tells me that he has been in touch with you about my visit to the West Indies. Once again I have found some difficulty with passages and it meant leaving the thing undecided for an indefinite time, which is very difficult for me because I have to work in my business and other affairs. I had a passage offered to me by the French Line on the Colombie which sails on December 27th and I have booked it. This is later than I had intended coming but as I have booked it is something definite on which to base my arrangements. I have booked my passage, therefore, to Jamaica but this line calls first at Trinidad and I am considering whether to stop off there and come on later to Jamaica. My wife and I are visiting the West Indies primarily for a holiday but naturally I am interested in our B.M.S. work and would like to see what I can of it both in Jamaica and Trinidad, while there. I had thought of arriving home sometime during March as I have important civic duties here in my own town from that time onwards over a certain period. At the moment I have made no other arrangements other than booking the passage. I have not even booked a return journey nor any accommodation. I thought I would leave that until after I had some consultation with you, or someone, as to what would be a good programme. I had thought that I might go to British Guiana while at Trinidad, and while in Jamaica (if that is the best point of departure) pay a visit to British Honduras, but all this is very much in the air. I could come to Jamaica first and go home via Trinidad, of course, but it is bound up with available means of travel and so on. I understand that you are coming home very shortly but that you will be back in the Island later in the autumn, so that it does look as if I should have the pleasure of seeing you there. Any help or advice that you can give me would be appreciated. With kind regards. Yours truly H C Janes

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Janes, Herbert Charles,
Janes, Hilda,
Tucker, Keith,
Angus, G H C,
French Line CGT (Companie Generale Transatlantique Ltd),
Baptist Missionary Society,
Calabar College, Kingston

CORRESPONDENCE, holidays, college, Baptists, civil ships, SS Colombie, LUTON, Jamaica, Trinidad, British Guiana, British Honduras