Box 8
Container
Contains 3 Results:
The Van Bokkelen Claim, December 4, 1888
Item — Box: 8
Scope and Contents
Includes 5 letters signed by U.S. Secretaries of State under Cleveland and B. Harrison: Thomas F. Bayard (1886-1889), James G. Blaine (1889-1892), and William F. Wharton (1892, acting)This is a scraplook of the van Bokkelen case regarding an American imprisoned in Haiti for debt. The case could not be settled with the Republic of Haiti, so it was submitted to Morse for arbitration. The arbitration resulted in van Bokkelen was releaed on a debt payment plan. The ledger contains...
Dates:
December 4, 1888
Scrapbook relating to Morse's 1890 article, November 1, 1890
Item — Box: 8
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook relating to Morse's 1890 article about the legal status of a refugee on an American ship in a foreign port, originally printed in the Albany Law Journal. It contains:
a newspaper clipping in the Washington Law Reporter from March 12, 1890, praising Morse for his work in international jurisprudence;
a report of the Secretary of State and accompanying correspondence in relation to the killing General J. Martin Barrundia;
an article titled "Legal Aspects of the Killing of...
Dates:
November 1, 1890
Scrapbook: Porter Morse and Edward Morse
Item — Box: 8
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook containing various mementos and newspaper clippings. Dates vary.The following is an illustrative but incomplete list:Alexander Porter Morse pages:
Copy of Daughter's wedding invitation (Margaretta Wederstrandt and Carlos E. Grevemberg) in 1916.
Newspaper clippings: Spanish War Claims, Battle Ship Maine, Hearings in Cuban Cases, Settlement of Spanish Claims
Letter appointing Morse to arbitrate claims of Venezuelan Steam Transportation against the Venezuelan...