LETTER, FROM THE INHABITANTS OF ST CHRISTOPHER TO ARCHIBALD PAULL BURT

Booklet which includes a letter and several hundred signatures dated January 1874 from the inhabitants of St Christopher [St Kitts] to Archibald Paull Burt.
The letter was written as a welcome back to St Christopher on the occasion of AP Burt's return for a visit after being away for 14 years.
The booklet is made up of a white sheet of paper folded in half, with two additional pages added (single sheets folded around initial sheet at the left-hand side to form a booklet). Pages bound with purple ribbon tied at the back. Writing is in black ink and 4.5 pages contain signatures of the inhabitants of St Christopher.
Pages 3 and 4 have ink stains. Previously folded into quarters, three crease marks visible down length. Back two pages have tears on crease lines.