1835 March 14, Prairie des Chiens: Joseph Rolette [Sr.] to H.H. Sibley
Quantity: A.L.S. 2pp. 
Scope and Content Note: Writer thinks price offered to Alexander Faribault is more than equivalent to his services or capacity. Asks Sibley to tell Laframboise to wait until June, but expects he will go to Mackinac this year and get married. Pacquet has paid $3,000. The corn in the boat has been delivered to Fort Winnebago where the Indians are starving. In 1831 paid Bailly for a quantity of traps left in the hands of Indians. Has received very few, as Indians will not deliver any thing but to the person from whom they received them. If Bailly engages in the trade, the traps “will be an engine to work against us.” The fur trade is not bright enough to encourage opposition, especially if purchaser has no Capital, as it is the case with Bailly. “The Civil authority from Dubuque County extend to your place -- it will be good.”