Brief guide to manuscripts collections| William L. Clements Library The University of Michigan Charles Winstone Letterbook |
Charles Winstone was solicitor general and later attorney general of Dominica.
Letterbook kept by Charles Winstone, attorney general of Dominica, 210 pp.
The letterbook, dated December 22, 1777, to July 20, 1786, contains his business correspondence. The letters, concerned mainly with legal, financial, and plantation affairs, include reference to the effect of the American Revolution on trade, the activities of American privateers, the defenses of Dominica, French naval and military activity in the West Indies, the capture of Dominica by France, and conditions there after the capture.
Purchased, 1931
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