{"value"=>"<p>The Diplomatic correspondence pertains to Haiti's relations with the Dominican Republic, the United States, France, and other countries. Correspondents include Ebenezer Bassett, Louis Joseph Janvier, Thomas Madiou, and Stephen Preston. Also included are materials related to the Maunder claim, by which England sought to seize the island of Tortuga from Haiti in the 1870s; complaints by the German representative about negative stories in the Haitian press about Germany in 1940; complaints and measures involving Syrian merchants illegally engaged in the retail trade; and various documents related to the immigration status of foreign nationals in Haiti, the trades in which they engaged, police actions against them, and the protestations of their governments.</p>"}