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Senhouse papers, 1764-1790

The papers consist of account books, legal records, correspondence, and memoirs of members of the Senhouse family, largely in connection with their plantations and trade in the West Indies. 

Louis-Marie de la Revellière-Lépeaux Papers

The collection consists of correspondence, writings, official reports, subject files, printed materials, and personal papers documenting the life and political career of La Revellière-Lépeaux, particularly during the period of the First Republic (1792-1804).

William Blathwayt Papers

The papers contain correspondence, newsletters, diplomatic papers, and reports documenting Blathwayt’s career and English foreign policy and history in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, especially during the Anglo-Dutch wars and the War of the Spanish Succession.

Boswell Collection Addition

The papers primarily document the administration of the debt-burdened estate of Auchinleck after the death of Sir Alexander Boswell in 1822. In addition, there are letters by Charles Douglas, a planter in Jamaica, concerning many aspects of his life and career, such as his ownership of slaves and opinions about slavery, immigrant life in Jamaica, and the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on the Caribbean.

Barrington (Samuel) Letterbooks

Two letterbooks of incoming correspondence kept by Admiral Samuel Barrington during his command in the West Indies as Rear Admiral of the White. Correspondents include members of the Admiralty Board; junior officers; Admiral John Byron, who superseded Barrington as commander; officers of the French Navy, including Admirals de Bouillé and d’Estaing; government officials from various West Indian islands.

Ralph Payne, Baron Lavington Papers

The papers document the West Indian portions of the economic fortunes and political career of the sugar planter and politician Ralph Payne, first Baron Lavington.

French Participation in the American Revolution

Collection consists of documents relating to France’s secret and open role on behalf of the American Revolution. Contains papers related to France’s role in the Caribbean and its alliance with the Spanish forces, including several reports by Diego José Navarro; French rule of Santo Domingo after the Treaty of Paris; and other materials including documents related to naval confrontations between the French and British fleets, the supplying of Rochambeau’s army, the termination of hostilities.

Livingstone Family Papers

In addition to photographs, John Curran collected more than seventy-five Italian drawings by Maggiotto and Tiepolo, and more than fifty early nineteenth-century French engravings and lithographs. Anna (IV) and Archibald (V) Livingston’s trips to Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, and most especially throughout the American West, resulted in hundreds of images made between the 1880s and the 1950s, many of which were organized into albums.

Nelson Hayes Papers

The Nelson Hayes papers contain correspondence, writings, journals, and other materials documenting the personal and professional life of author Nelson Hayes. Materials throughout the collection also document Hayes’s special interest in the Caribbean. For example, photographs relating to the Caribbean. Specific writings set in the Caribbean include “Caribbean Junket”, Dildo Cay, and “Spanceled”. Otherwise, the bulk of the general correspondence in the collection is with Hayes’s wife and mother.

Langston Hughes Papers

Series I, Personal Correspondence, contains the bulk of the letters received by Hughes during his lifetime. Hughes took much interest in the careers of younger African-American, African, Caribbean, and Central American writers such as: Leroi Jones; Ted Joans, and Alice Walker.

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