Consists of correspondence and an inventory related to a coffee plantation owned by François Faure in the Dondon parish of Saint-Domingue, a French colony on the portion of the island of Hispaniola (Taíno: Haiti) that became the Republic of Haiti in 1804. The collection documents the plantation's operations under the management of Faure's nephew Pierre Faure and a Monsieur M. Fauquet during Faure's absence in the 1760s. Correspondence consists of ten letters from Pierre Faure and M. Fauquet to François Faure in France (including one letter addressed to his son-in-law Valentin Loiseau) containing updates about the status of the estate. The letters are accompanied by a meticulous 10-page inventory conducted in 1763, which lists enslaved laborers, crops, furniture, equipment, buildings, and livestock on the estate. The materials in this collection provide a detailed account of the operations of a large colonial coffee plantation in the mid-18th century; they also contain evidence of the practice of marronage and other tactics of resistance to slavery in pre-revolutionary Haiti.

The multi-paged letters from Faure and Fauquet discuss the cultivation and production of coffee; planning and accounting related to supplies, equipment, and the maintenance of buildings; animal husbandry; and the management of enslaved laborers. They report on coffee crop yields, inventories taken of the estate, buildings in disrepair, deaths of people and animals from illness, the births and pregnancies of enslaved women, and resistance from the enslaved inhabitants of the estate. Racial tensions and burgeoning revolutionary sentiments in Saint-Domingue can be seen in the descriptions of slavery and enslaved people on the Faure plantation. The correspondence and inventory both note various instances of self-liberation and include the names of enslaved persons who escaped, likely to join the maroon communities that were prevalent in pre-revolutionary Haiti. In one early letter, Pierre Faure refutes accusations that he had sexual relations with an enslaved woman named Margot and recounts how, as a result, enslaved men on the plantation watched him at night in order to protect Margot from his advances. Another letter briefly mentions a rebellion of enslaved laborers in 1765. By the mid- and late-1760s, Faure and Fauquet regularly complain in their letters about the need for additional enslaved laborers, after many had died, become ill, or escaped from the plantation.