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Hodgson Narrative


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ADD 191

Held at: University College London

Title: Hodgson Narrative

Date(s): [1757]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Hodgson | Robert | fl 1740-1759 | Commander-in-Chief of the Mosquito Shore

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Mosquito (Miskito) Coast (Costa de Mosquitos; Mosquito Kingdom; Mosquitia) is the region of Nicaragua and Honduras on the Atlantic coast, a lowland band c40 miles wide and c225 miles long. It was visited by Columbus in 1502, but Europeans had little contact with the area until the 17th century, when England established a protectorate over the Miskito Indians (1661). Spain, Nicaragua and the United States disputed this claim until the matter was finally settled by the occupation of the Mosquito Coast by the Nicaraguan government and by the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 between the USA and Great Britain.

Robert Hodgson senior was British superintendent of the Mosquito Coast between 1740 and 1759.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript narrative comprising an account of the Mosquito Shore [Honduras/Nicaragua].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

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Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Found in Gordon Square History Library, London.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Publication note:

Later published as Some account of the mosquito territory, contained in a memoir written in 1757... (London, 1822).

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica online; Michael D Olien, 'General, Governor and Admiral: three Miskito lines of succession' (published in Ethnohistory, 45(2) (1998), pp 277-318), and 'Imperialism, ethnogenesis and marginality: ethnicity and politics on the Mosquito Coast' (published in The Journal of Ethnic Studies, 16(1) (1988), pp 1-29) (web versions); www.geocities.com (Nicaragua).

Date(s) of descriptions: 1999, revised Aug 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Travel

Personal names
Hodgson | Robert | fl 1740-1759 | Commander-in-Chief of the Mosquito Shore

Corporate names

Places
Costa de Mosquitos | Zelaya | Nicaragua | Central America
Mosquito Coast | Honduras | Central America
Miskito x Mosquito Coast