Alcance y Contenido:

Correspondencia dirigida por los intendentes de Luisiana Juan Ventura Morales y Francisco Rendón, a varias autoridades. Legajo 89. 1796. Correspondencia del Señor Morales á varias Autoridades. B, 30 cm., 750 letters. The legajo covers the year 1796 only. The letters for each month are together, and the months come in order. The legajo consists of the following series of correspondence: (a) Jan. to Apr., Francisco Rendon, intendant of Louisiana, to Baron de Carondelet (with drafts of replies), Juan Delavillebeuvre, Marcos DeVilliers, Pedro Olivier, Antonio de San Maxent, Felix Trudeau, and Enrique White. (b) Apr. to Dec., Juan Ventura Morales, acting intendant, to Baron de Carondelet, Juan Delavillebeuvre, Pedro Favrot, Vizente Folch, Francisco de Paula Gelabert, Pedro Olivier, and Antonio de San Maxent. (c) Drafts and originals of Carondelet to Francisco Bouligny, Josef Deville Degoutin, Carlos Dehault Delassus, Manuel Garcia, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Carlos Howard, Juan Ventura Morales, Zenon Trudeau, and Josef Ignacio de Viar. (d) Jacobo DuBreuil, Pensacola, and Francisco Rendon, New Orleans, to Pedro Olivier. (e) Gabriel Marin Pizarro to Enrique White. Subjects treated: Lists of gifts for Choctaws; expenses of Gayoso de Lemos on special commission to confer with the agents of Kentucky; notices regarding public works; contract with the Marqués de Maison Rouge; Indian trade -Panton and Company; General Collot; supplies for posts; movements of vessels in the Mississippi; and possession of the intendancy by Morales