Papers of John Malcolm (Forbes) Ludlow (1821-1911), and of the Ludlow and allied families, late 18th to early 20th century. This collection of papers comprises: correspondence of Ludlow's father, Lieutenant-Colonel John Ludlow, an officer in India; correspondence with his sisters, Eliza and Maria Ludlow, and Maria's husband, Charles Liot, and the Liot family; diaries of Eliza and Maria Ludlow, 1820s-1830s; papers of Charles Liot and the Liot family, some of which relate to Martinique; papers of members of the Des Graz family [Constance Des Graz was the daughter of Charles and Maria Liot (nee Ludlow)]; genealogical and bigraphical papers of the Ludlow family, including baptism certificates, wills, notes on graves and Ludlow pedigree. One of Ludlow's sisters, Maria, married Charles Liot, Treasurer of Martinique, then a French colony in the Caribbean. Coffee plantations worked by enslaved labour were a feature of Martinique from the 1720s. It seems likely that Charles Liot owned or had interest in a plantation or estate at Mondelice, Martinique, with enslaved labour (see MS Add.7450/23). According to the entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, John Ludlow visited Martinique in the late 1830s and 'learned a hatred of slavery' (see: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/37696).