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Correspondencia del Gobernador de Luisiana y Florida Occidental, Esteban Miró.
Legajo 3. 1781-1785. Correspondencia de D.Esteban Miró, gobernador de Nueva Orleans con el capitan general de las dos Floridas, Sr. Gálvez y otras autoridades de aquel gobierno y de la isla de Cuba, con referencia a las plazas de Panzacola, Mobila y Baton Rouge. B, 42.5 cm., 1000 letters. The correspondence is scattered through all the months of the years 1781-1785. The legajo is divided into seven bundles, one each for the years 1781-1784 and three for 1785. Within these bundles the letters are in disorder.The most important series is that directed to Galvez. The legajo consists of the following series of correspondence:
(a) Letters and drafts of Esteban Miró, governor of Luisiana, to: 1781-1782, Baltasar de Villiers; 1781, 1783, Esteban de Vaugine; 1781, 1783-1785, Bernardo de Gálvez (1783, nº 103; 1784, nos. 108, 110, 114-116, 119, 120, 127, 131, 132, 134, 141; 1785, nos. 207, 210, 213, 224, 227, 230, 231, 233-243, 245, 247, 248, 250, 251, 253, 254-270, 272-275, 277-279; cf. legajo 224 (g) ), Nicolas Verbois; 1782, Juan Manuel de Cagigal; 1782-1783, Luis de Villars; 1782-1784, Nicolás Delassize, Enrique Grimarest; 1782, 1784, 1785, Francisco Cruzat, Luis Declouet; 1782-1785, Mauricio O´Conor; 1783 - 1785, Arturo O´Neill, José Petely; 1783, 1785, Jacobo Dubreuil; 1784, Francisco Rivas; 1784-1785, Francisco Bouligny, José de Ezpeleta, Pedro Favrot: 1785. François Allain, Ignacio Delinó, Vicente Fernández de Ruilova, Vicente Folch, Carlos de Grand Pré, Antonio de Oro, Pedro Piernas, Pedro Rousseau, Felipe Treviño, and Zenón Trudeau. (b) 1782, letters of Francisco Deverges, Baliza, to Pedro Piernas; José Petely, Baliza, to Francisco Bouligny (with drafts of replies); and, 1782-1783, Ignacio Delinó, Baton Rouge, to Esteban Miró. Subjects treated: 1781, expedition against and capture of Panzacola; 1782, indian affairs and military supplies; 1783, indians and introductions of slaves; 1784, military matters; 1785, english subjects in Luisiana; acadians; the Georgia commissioners; indians and military affairs