(LATIN AMERICA) Marshall Howard Seville Reports on Nicaragua

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(LATIN AMERICA.) Marshall Howard Seville. Reports on Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Surinam, Honduras, Cuba, Chile, and more. 10 items, numbered non-continuously, totaling 19 carbon typescript pages (first essay an original typescript), each 10 1/2 x 8 inches; each bound with original paper clip, minor wear, some with manuscript corrections, each dated and annotated in pencil. No place, October-December 1918

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Marshall Howard Saville (1867-1935) was a professor of archaeology at Columbia University, and a founding member of the Explorers Club. He was an early director of New York's Museum of the American Indian. In the course of many projects in Central and South America, he gained the expertise to produce these essays for the burgeoning United States intelligence community. Some or all were circulated internally as United States Military Intelligence Weekly Summaries (later republished in 1978). Included are: "The Nicaraguan Situation," 29 October 1918; "Impending Costa Rican Revolution," 29 October 1918; "The Extension of American Influence in Paraguay," 7 November 1918; "Dutch Guiana or Surinam," 12 November 1918; "The Proposed Union of Salvador and Honduras," 13 November 1918; "Cuban Political Tendencies," 16 November 1918; "The Colombian Problem," 19 November 1918; "The South American Alsace-Lorraine" (on the Chile-Peru border dispute), 19 November 1918; "The Relation of Chile and Argentina," 22 November 1918; and "Chile-Peruvian Dispute," 4 December 1918. Provenance: found among Saville's manuscripts at a Connecticut estate sale.