Documents relating to the French West Indies, 1785-1869.

0.21 linear feet (1 box)

French

In French.

Purchased from S. Miraglia on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2002.

Arranged chronologically.

This material is open for research.

Autograph letters, signed, official documents, notes and a case file documenting various aspects of French rule in the West Indies, almost entirely dating from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. Manuscripts include a lengthy letter by "M. Prunet" detailing the slave rebellion that began in August 1791 and spread throughout Haiti, written from Cap-français, 1791 October 12; a letter from the vicomte de Noailles to the vicomte de Rochambeau written shortly after the French general's abandonment of Port-au-Prince, 1803 October 14; a note from J. H. Raphael to "Admiral Goodall," 1808 September 29, on stationery of "État d'Hayti," the breakaway republic ruled by Henri Christophe; and a letter from C. Delahun, 1814 December 15, describing his arrival in and impressions of Martinique. The collection also contains the case file of a property dispute between "citoyen Bouillet" and "citoyen Thomas" of Saint-Domingue (Haiti), 1803-1812.

March 28, 2014

Documents Relating to the French West Indies. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Documents Relating to the French West Indies. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.