The Suez Canal, an Achievement of Enthusiasm and Diplomacy

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Perhaps the fullest collection of material on the Suez Canal in the United States has been given to the Business School Library and the Society by the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez, through the agency of Mr. George Edgar Bonnet, Directeur General Adjoint of the Company. The bulk of the collection consists of annual reports of the Company, from 1860 to 1870, and from 1872 to 1928; the reports of the Engineer in Chief to the Commission Consultative Internationale des Travaux; and the documentary record of the canal, with M. de Lesseps' personal comments, in the Lettres, Journal et Documents, covering the period between 1854 and 1869, the dates of the first step toward the enterprise and the opening of the canal, and the reports of the International Commission, the Dutch Commission, and the English Meetings, and other papers published under the title Percement de L'Isthme de Suez.