I flipped through a volume of "Slave Trade Correspondence" from 1858-1859 and the personal desk diary of Donald Duart Maclean, a British diplomat who served as a Soviet KGB spy during WWII.
I flipped through a volume of "Slave Trade Correspondence" from 1858 to 1859 and the personal desk diary of Donald Duart Maclean, a British diplomat who served as a Soviet KGB spy during WWII.
In general terms, the correspondence effectively traded British support of an independent Arab state in exchange for Arab assistance in opposing the Ottoman Empire.
Land tenure, disputes, agriculture, trade, census, correspondence, tracts, newspaper clippin.
Leyonhjelm later released correspondence that indicates that Abbott had himself "horse traded" on gun laws with Leyonhjelm in return for his support for other, non-related government legislation.
Scholars know how the literati traded thoughts across town that spring partly because one collector, Paula Peyraud, started gathering female Georgian writers' correspondence, books and portraits in the 1960s.
Prosecutors claim, too, that she traded sex for influence and dated a Republican political operative (whom she complained about in her private correspondences).
"According to Jefferson's later correspondence, the [slavery] compromise was made not only to appease delegates from South Carolina and Georgia, but also to ease the minds of northern delegates who traded in slaves," said William Stingone, Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscripts for NYPL.
Correspondence, trade cards and other advertising material, and other business and personal papers.
Contains royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types.
