Collection of documents, letters etc., including a document signed by Sir Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury (lease of Poyle Manor, Seale, and lands in Surrey and Hertfordshire, 17 November 1607); a letter (seemingly signed) by Admiral William Parker, as Commander-in-Chief of Jamaica, written during Toussaint Louverture’s Haitian Revolution, to the French General Etienne Laveaux, discussing the release of mulattos and other prisoners (“...I take notice of... your impatience to have restored the thirty seven men of colour, of whom you have named many... Lieutenant Dunn of the Navy is the bearer of this in a Vessel I have hired for the purpose, and navigated by Men from the Raisonable: He will deliver you Sixty Prisoners and I understand the Women you have required me to take their passage also...”), headed “His Britannic Majestys Ship the Raisonable at the Mole St Nicholas the 26th April 1795”; file of correspondence dating from 1804 between General Sir David Dundas, commander of the Kent and Surrey District, Colonel Drinkwater, and others, largely concerning Admiral Hood’s claims for prize money following the siege of Toulon, in which Drinkwater had participated (with extensive modern research notes included); journal of a tour of the Continent in 1823; together with letters and documents signed or on behalf of Porfirio Diaz, Poincaré, Clemenceau, Kossuth and others
Collection of documents, letters etc., including a document signed by Sir Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury (lease of Poyle Manor, Seale, and lands in Surrey and Hertfordshire, 17 November 1607); a letter (seemingly signed) by Admiral William Parker, as Commander-in-Chief of Jamaica, written during Toussaint Louverture’s Haitian Revolution, to the French General Etienne Laveaux, discussing the release of mulattos and other prisoners (“...I take notice of... your impatience to have restored the thirty seven men of colour, of whom you have named many... Lieutenant Dunn of the Navy is the bearer of this in a Vessel I have hired for the purpose, and navigated by Men from the Raisonable: He will deliver you Sixty Prisoners and I understand the Women you have required me to take their passage also...”), headed “His Britannic Majestys Ship the Raisonable at the Mole St Nicholas the 26th April 1795”; file of correspondence dating from 1804 between General Sir David Dundas, commander of the Kent and Surrey District, Colonel Drinkwater, and others, largely concerning Admiral Hood’s claims for prize money following the siege of Toulon, in which Drinkwater had participated (with extensive modern research notes included); journal of a tour of the Continent in 1823; together with letters and documents signed or on behalf of Porfirio Diaz, Poincaré, Clemenceau, Kossuth and others
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