73 - A substantial collection of archival materials,

A substantial collection of archival materials, letters, official documents, etc., concerning the Lahure family, including General Baron Félix Corneille Lahure (1800–1882), comprising: - 1 handwritten letter "Count de Rauchgrau," Secretary to the King of the Belgians, to General Baron Lahure, aide-de-camp to the King, dated December 14, 1879, in Brussels, conveying His Majesty’s thanks for his memoirs "Souvenirs - East Indies and the Island of Célèbres,” 1 page, on letterhead of the Office of the King of the Belgians; - 1 laissez-passer issued by the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the name of the King of the Belgians, authorizing Captain Lahure, attached to the Extraordinary Mission of Belgium to His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden, dated December 31, 1860, in Brussels, bearing the handwritten signature of the Secretary General of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry’s seal, on fine paper printed with the Belgian coat of arms under the royal crown; - 1 letter from the Lieutenant General, Chief of the King’s Military Household, dated October 18, 1871, informing Lieutenant General Lahure of the addition of the title of Baron to his mission credentials, on letterhead of the King’s Military House, in its original envelope, with a red wax seal; - 1 letter announcing that the Sublime Porte would present his work to the Sultan, dated February 22, 1875, in Constantinople; - 1 letter from the Muquardt Publishers regarding the transfer of ownership of the first volume of *Souvenirs Historiques* in exchange for its publication, dated August 22, 1879, in Brussels; - 1 strand of hair from the tail of El-Bek, the Shah’s stallion in Persia, dated June 1873. - 1 certificate of induction into the Order of the Red Eagle of the Kingdom of Prussia, dated October 19, 1882, in Baden-Baden, on printed letterhead calligraphied in the name of King William II of Prussia, with the embossed seal of the Kingdom of Prussia; - 1 decree appointing Baron Lahure, vice-consul and head of the Chancellery of the Legation of the French Republic in Brussels, to the rank of Knight of the Order of Leopold II, dated May 9, 1911, in Brussels, countersigned by Foreign Minister Davignon. Etc.