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Series: 39 J - 42 J (Volumes 39-42)
: Four volumes of manuscript transcripts of letters and reports, 1792-1795, pertaining to Spanish administration of West Florida and Louisiana. Written in Spanish, these copies were made for Draper about 1883 from originals in the Spanish Archives. Most of the documents were authored by Francisco Luis Hector, Baron de Carondelet, governor of Louisiana and West Florida from 1791 to 1797, who made his residence in New Orleans. Also copied was some closely related correspondence of Baron Carondelet's brother-in-law, Luis de Las Casas, in Havana, Cuba, and of Manuel Gayoso de Lemos at Natchez and New Madrid. Principal topics discussed include the military and economic condition of Louisiana and western Florida; American expansionism; Spanish relations with the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Osage Indian tribes; relations with France and England; and reports of Clark's expedition against Louisiana. Among other notable Americans mentioned or quoted in the papers were Auguste Chouteau, William Clark, Elijah Clarke of Georgia, Thomas Jefferson, Anthony Wayne, and James Wilkinson.
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