 We enter the office to find it much as it was left when the Jefferson business closed. As the business had declined many rooms were shut off to save on lighting and heating and this office, once the centre of the entire Jefferson empire, was one such room. Apart from a few minor additions and a good dusting very little has changed here.
 From this room the family would monitor and manage their commercial activities as well as all the tasks involved in running and manning their own fleet of merchant vessels and the Yeaman's plantation in Antigua. Standing in this almost Dickensian room, it is easy to conjure an image of the clerks scribbling in ledgers, struggling to cope with the demands of such a vast, wide-ranging business, while the Head Clerk, sitting on his table and high stool, watches them with a close eye and firm control.
After studying this fascinating collection of objects and Jefferson family portraits the time has come to enter the main exhibition, starting where our rum also starts life, in the rainforest of Antigua.
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