Journal and letterbooks, 1786-1798.

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Journal and letterbooks, 1786-1798.

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Journal in 2 bound vols. and 18 folios, and 3 letterbooks of Nathaniel Cutting, shipmaster and commercial agent of Newbury (Mass.) merchant Nathaniel Tracy at Havre and confidential diplomatic agent for the Dept. of State. Journal (1790-93) includes observations on the French Revolution, his activities in the slave trade and other commercial interests, the slave insurrections in Santo Domingo (Hispaniola), and a 1793 mission as Vice-Consul with Colonel David Humphreys to the Dey of Algiers. The letterbooks (3 vols., 1789-1798) contain commercial letters; information on political affairs in France and Europe, including the French Revolution and the XYZ Affair; and letters from Santo Domingo about the slave insurrections. The bulk of the letters are written to Peter C. Brooks, Pierce Butler, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Thomas H. Perkins, Timothy Pickering, Edmund Randolph, James Swan, and Nathaniel Tracy.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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