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Box 11: Group of 17 documents related to Haitian history
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- 1825 - 1894 (Creation)
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"An interesting group of manuscripts all related to Haiti. Highlights include: An untitled 20-page manuscript on Haiti in English, without author, including sections on natural history, commerce, history, and politics, circa 1825; Group of 4 letters signed by Louis Dufrene as Haitian Foreign Minister to Eugène Séguy de Villevaleix, Haitian charges-des-affairs in Paris, discussing, reestablsihment of the French Empire, and politics in Europe. Port-au-Prince, January to July 1853; manuscript account book titled "Compatabilité particulière reative aux traites reçues pour le paiement de la dette nationale" (payments to France on the national debt), 30 pages, March 1862 to March 1864; certificate issued to Alonzo P. Holly (trained in New York) to practice medicine in Haiti, Port-au-Prince, 7 November 1889; group of 4 documents concerning the treatment of a distressed American vessel, the schooner John I. Snow, at Cap Haïtien. Vp, April-May 1894." -Libreria de Antaño