20778: Arthur: Re: 20670: Beckett asks about David Nicholls (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tttnhm@aol.com

In a message dated 3/23/2004 12:03:41 AM W. Europe Standard Time,
beckett@uchicago.edu wrote:

<< From: beckett@uchicago.edu

 I have heard that there is a library collection related to Haiti that was
left
 by David Nicholls. Does anyone know where this collection is located and what
 kind of material might be there? >>

Charles Arthur writes:

I used the David Nicholls Memorial Library in Oxford in 1998 while
researching my (and Michael Dash's) book, "Libete: A Haiti Anthology" (Latin America
Bureau, Markus Wiener, 1999). At that time it was in a room in Oxford and had not
been sorted or catalogued. It included a large collection of books on Haiti
-the majority in French - but, and more interesting for me, also a lot of
papers, and correspondence, etc. I remember one in particular, a report from Jean
Rabel by an Oxfam workers who arrived in the village a few days after the
notorious massacre of Tet Ansamn peasants in 1987 (by the way, where is Father Jean
Marie Vincent today? where is Stanley Lucas today? and what will happen to
the legal process against the massacre's intellectual authors under the new
regime?). The collection is a wonderful source but, I am sorry, that is all that I
can tell you  about it. I don't remember where it was housed or who was going
to catalogue it. My guess is that it is still in Oxford and is part of one of
the university colleges.