MARTINIQUE. - Set of 3 signed letters from the years 1786-1791.
- L.S. to M. Thomé, captain in the regiment of the French guards, dated Versailles June 30, 1786, half page folio. The marshal de Castries informs that the King has granted a pension to the widow of a sieur Thomé, former commissioner of the colonies stationed in Sainte-Lucie,
but that this favor cannot be extended to the children.
- L.S. from Thomé, dated July 6, 1786, 2 pages in-12, black wax stamps. It seems that this letter was used as a draft for the brigadier Thomé for his answer to the marshal de Castries, thanking him for having obtained from the king a pension for the sieur Thomé who died in Sainte-Lucie.
- L.S. from Madame G. Thomé (widow of the said Thomé), dated Saint-Pierre in Martinique, November 24, 1791, one and a half pages in-8 square. The widow paints a picture of the troubled situation in the colony and says she was forced to flee to the English colonies; expresses her concern about Martinique: we may be threatened by the same events in St. Domingue.
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