August 30, 1804

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Benjamin Morgan as member of Legislative Council for Louisiana]

Countersigned by Secretary of State James Madison. Says the appointment was made in light of Congressional division of the Louisiana Purchase into two sections in 1804, Orleans Territory and the District of Louisiana. Morgan was appointed to the Legislative Council for the Orleans Territory, which consists of the modern day state of Louisiana. Given a one year term to begin on 30 September 1804. Large Seal of the United States on recto.

GLC03871

14 March 1805

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Isaac Briggs re: reports on formation of government & surveying of Louisiana

With three drafts of letters by Briggs to Jefferson.

GLC03872

3 March 1812

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Letter signed

Title: to Congress

Transmits the proceedings of a convention assembled in New Orleans pursuant to an act "for the admission of the said State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States." Louisiana became a state on 30 April 1812.

GLC03879

1804

United States. Congress

Book

Title: Debates of the House on the bills for carrying into effect the Louisiana Treaty

Related to the Louisiana Purchase. Printed by Thomas and George Palmer

GLC04034

1814

Brackenridge, Henry M., fl. 1814

Book

Title: Views of Louisiana; together with... a voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811

Full title: "Views of Louisiana : together with a Journal of a voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811" Printed and published by Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, Franklin head office.

GLC04140

1807

Broadside

Title: Direct Tax

Broadside on New Hampshire taxation regarding the Louisiana Purchase. Concerns the cost of the Louisiana purchase, with a table showing the proportionate cost per county of the $15 million bill, and describing how the Embargo Act makes it difficult if not impossible to pay France without a special tax. The writer, "Americanus," also warns of the threat of European war.

GLC04073

1805

Bradford, James Morgan, 1779-1837

Book signed

Title: Acts passed at the second session of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Orleans, Begun and held at the Principal, in the city of New-Orleans, on Thursday the twentieth day of June, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States the twenty-ninth

Published by Bradford in New Orleans. Title page signed by Pierre Derbigny. "House of Representatives" is also written on the page, possibly referring to the Louisiana State House of Representatives.

GLC04497

1803

Ross, James, fl. 1803

Book

Title: The Speeches of Mr. Ross and Mr. Morris...in the Senate...[right of deposit, La]

Published by Bronson & Chauncey. Speeches by Federalist senators from Pa. and NY 2/24/1803 urging a declaration of war on Spain, seizure of West Florida and New Orleans, and fortification of the Mississippi because of Spain's ending rights of deposit in New Orleans. References: DAB 16: 178, Shaw and Shoemaker 4996.

GLC04285

1804

Derbigny, Pierre, 1767-1829

Pamphlet signed

Title: Memorial presented by the inhabitants of Louisiana to the Congress of the United States, in Senate and House of Representatives convened. Translated from the French...

(title continues)... Sole copy acknowledged to be conformable to the original. Famous pamphlet expressing the grievances of French settlers in Louisiana after annexation by the United States. "Henry" written on first page. Derbigny signs last page, under a note: "Conformable to the original deposited in the house of Representatives." Also signed by P[ierre] Sauve, and [Jean Noel] Destrehan, delegates representing the merchants, planters, and other inhabitants of Louisiana before the United States Senate. Printed by Samuel H. Smith. In fragile condition.

GLC04571

18 April 1801

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Pitcairn

Discusses their correspondence, personal matters, and politics. Mentions the "Silesian letters" and comments on the cession of Louisiana to Florida. Pitcairn was stationed at Hamburg. Sealed with black mourning wax.

GLC04900.01

July 9, 1803

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles James Fox [in French]

Lafayette writes to English politician and friend, Charles Fox, regarding his own health. Lafayette had recently broken several bones and torn tendons in a fall, but reports that he is on that mend and will soon be back at La Grange, his country estate outside of Paris. He commends Fox on his attempts to forge peaceful relations with France. He also believes that all will soon agree that the acquisition of the Louisiana territory from the French by the United States is for the best. He notes that the letter will be brought to Fox by James Monroe, then American Ambassador to England. He asks…

GLC04800

1803

Brown, Charles B., fl. 1803

Pamphlet

Title: An Address... on the cession of Louisiana to the French...

Manifest destiny and the Louisiana territory. Printed by H. Maxwell. Howes B831, Thompson 974, S&S 33881. Stamps on titlepage. Signature of Elihu Chauncey.

GLC04959.01

circa 1880

Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869

Engraving

Title: Engraving of William Charles Cole Claiborne

One engraving of William Charles Cole Claiborne dated circa 1880. Half portrait of Pinckney based on the miniature by Ambrose Duval.

GLC08878.2062

20 November 1805

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas McKean

Marked private and confidential. Written by Madison as Secretary of State probably to McKean as Governor of Pennsylvania. Madison is trying to keep the Marquis de Casa Yrujo (Don Carlos Martinez de Yrujo), the Spanish Minister to the United States, from going to Washington. Yrujo angered the Jefferson administration by his public disapproval of the Louisiana Purchase and Madison says it "will make it necessary that he should not remain indefinitely in this Country in his public Character." Wants McKean to use his friendly relations to Yrujo's family to communicate this fact in a…

GLC06416

January 17, 1804

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter

Title: to Thomas B. Adams

Adams, then a Massachusetts senator, writes to his brother about "the receipts and expenditures, upon the Seamen's fund" and the Louisiana Purchase. Discusses the legislation relating to Louisiana that would "tax them, then make a government for them, and at last admit them as a State or States, by Acts of Congress..." Notes that he has finally settled his accounts from when he was abroad working as a diplomat.

GLC06606

February 12, 1803

Gates, Horatio, 1727-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston

Revolutionary War general Horatio Gates, replying to a letter from Livingston, American minister to France, discusses the Haitian Revolution, the Louisiana Purchase, Napoleon, and other French notables. Writes, "I greedily devour every line that comes from your Pen, & View with anxiety the predictions you make upon the present appearance of the political conduct of The Great Man" (referring to Napoleon). Discusses Napoleon's intentions to conquer the seas and all nations, noting "This no friend to Civil Liberty can wish to see accomplished." Relates that James Monroe,…

GLC06611

1802-1822 ca.

Pinkney, William, 1764-1822

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Personal notebook re: various legal questions, case issues and diplomacy

Two items: notebook 252 p. oblong quarter in leather, discusses transaction of Louisiana and Florida, the Pinkney Family crest, and numerous legal cases; paperbound record book 20 p. Formerly the property of J.A. Soiecki, record book containing a biography of William Pinkney, ca. 1868.

GLC07602

1804

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Jefferson re: congratulations on Louisiana Purchase

GLC07560.02

1803

United States. Congress (8th, 1st session : 1803-1804)

Book

Title: Acts passed at the first session of the eighth Congress [Louisiana purchase]

8vo; unrecorded separately (see seller desc.): Louisiana purchase: "An Act to enable the President to take possession..." Original blue paper wrapper as issued, faded and yellowed. Paper spine is largely lost.

GLC00380

May 22, 1826

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles F. Mercer

Letter to Mercer, a Virginia Congressman. Acknowledges Mercer's letter from May 20, 1826. Monroe was seeking a refund of his expenses in France during the Louisiana Purchase negotiations over 20 years before. States that he understands Mercer did not send documents to the House of Representatives because it would not be proper for them to be published at this time. He hopes to get copies of the documents for his own files and presumes Samuel Ingham, a Pennsylvania Congressman and chairman of the select committee of the Committee of Claims considering Monroe's request, probably has them.…

GLC01134

12 December 1803

Russell, Cutler & Co.

Newspaper

Title: Boston gazette. [Vol. 15, no. 30 (December 12, 1803)]

Whole number 746. Includes short discussions of the Louisiana Purchase and the beginning of the Lewis and Clark expedition on p. 2. Lists wholesale prices, stock prices, and insurance premiums. Contains commercial correspondence, an article on a fund raising effort at Bowdoin College, foreign and national news, and various public notices and advertisements.

GLC08753

19 November 1803

Jenks, Eleazer Alley, 1776-1807

Newspaper

Title: Jenk's Portland gazette. [Vol. 6, no. 291 (Nov. 19, 1803)].

Among normal news and advertisements, prints the proclamation announcing the Louisiana Purchase, related congressional debates, and an editorial questioning the wisdom of the purchase.

GLC08754

1801-1804

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849

Book

Title: Reports of Secretary of Treasury, re: Louisiana purchase

GLC08583

16 April 1832

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Pamphlet

Title: In Senate of the United States. April 16, 1832. Mr. Clay, from the Committee on Manufactures, made, to the Senate, the following Report:

22d Congress, 1st Session, document no. 128. Discusses the history of land surveying and selling after the Revolution, the Louisiana purchase, and the acquisition of Florida. There was fear in the South that proceeds would be used to advance a colonization agenda. The report recommends distributing proceeds to the states based on population.

GLC00267.047

circa 1861-1877

Photograph

Title: Full length carte de visite portrait in militrary dress

Imprint of J. Haeuselmann, Bienne, on both recto and verso.

GLC00241.24