25785: Corbett: Just received a quite rare book on Haiti

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

> From Bob Corbett

Folks, I am just delighting in a new arrival, just came today from
England.  The book is called:  A GLIMPSE OF HAYTI AND HER NEGRO CHIEF.

Published in Liverpool in 1850.  It is 131 pages long.

Obviously I haven't read it yet, but it is by someone (unnamed author) who 
has just returned from Haiti and the data goes up to the rule of
Soulouque.  Looks like quite a bit of data on the Arawak / Taino natives 
as well.

The book, while 155 years old, isn't too delicate looking, so hopefully I 
will be able to scan it some day when I get the time and post the whole of 
it to my web page.

It seems to be a quite rare book, I could find only one library in the 
U.S. which has the book -- New York City Public Library, in their rare 
books collection.

As I get into it, whenever that is, I'll share a bit about the book, but 
since it just came this morning, I'll still just reveling in the very
presence of this gem.

It goes into my Haiti library as rare book # 135.  The collection is 
growing these days and I hunt and hunt and hunt.


Bob Corbett