Date Tree Hall was the first home of the Institute of Jamaica in the earliest days of the institution until the 1907 earthquake. The current home of the IOJ was rebuilt on that property. Mary Seacole's family home of Blundell Hall once stood next to Date Tree Hall until Seacole and her family lost much of the boarding house in a fire in Kingston in August of 1843. Blundell Hall was later replaced by New Blundell Hall where European military visitors to Jamaica often stayed. Seacole treated patients in the cholera epidemic of 1850 and in 1853, handed the reigns of the hotel to her brother, and returned to Colon, Panama.
Just today (2015/06/05) found these references to this magazine, which does not appear to have made it beyond this first issue; so far I have not been able to find any references to a...
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