Thank you so much for that Noel, every bit helps build a better picture of
what was going on at the time
Regards, Kathy
>Kathy -
>
>A little more on the background of the Peruvian Corporation:
>
>There was a long controversy with the government of Peru by foreign holders
>of defaulted Peruvian bonds. These holders, in the main English, settled the
>controversy in 1890 when they organized the Peruvian Corporation, Ltd.
>took over
>the government railways on a long-term lease in the hope of recovering on
>their defaulted bonds.
>
>The above from Henry Meiggs - Yankee Pizarro, by Watt Stewart. Duke
>University Press, 1946.
>
>I could not find any reference in this book to the persons on whom you had
>sought information.
>
>Noel Kirshenbaum
Kathy Noble
Coastal and Marine Program
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