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Palmerston are nonexistent. Lastly, there is no work this author was able to locate that
discussed the more focused topic of Victoria, Leopold, Palmerston, and Stockmar,
although there seems to be ample material available awaiting the interested historian.
Stockmar, in his initial capacity as secretary and physician to Leopold and later
as advisor to Victoria and Albert, are discussed by his son Baron E. Von Stockmar in
Memoirs of Baron Stockmar and in a general work, Victoria’s Guardian Angel: A Study
of Baron Stockmar, by Pierre Crabite.
In the area of overall Belgian colonial development in general there is, as
mentioned before, almost no literature–French, Flemish, or English. The tendency in
Belgium, and to a lesser degree in Britain, is to treat the endeavors such as the Congo,
Guatemala, Rio Nunez, and other efforts, individually. Frans van Kalken’s work
Histoire De La Belge De Son Expansion Colonial looks at the larger colonial effort but
is dated and does not reflect new sources and analysis, especially those of the last
twenty years. One very recent and extraordinarily beautiful and interesting illustrative
work is that of Patrick Maselis, From the Azores to New Zealand. This work looks at
Belgian colonial development from a philatelic aspect.
The literature dedicated to the Belgian interest in Texas is somewhat limited due
to the ephemeral nature of the endeavor itself. Dedicated works on the effort as a whole
do not exist. The best work on the effort is a thesis by Lee Francis Brown entitled
Victor Pirson Visits Texas, 1842. This is written in English and gives a good description
and detailed look at the actual trip by Victor Pirson, an agent for Belgium, to Texas in
1841-1842. Mary Catherine Chase’s work, Négociations De La République Du Texas
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