Letter signed Meriwether Lewis, McFarlin’s Farm, Pennsylvania, to his mother. He has for some time been an ensign in the militia but has been appointed to the same command in the volunteer service for six months and must now make some new arrangement for his business. He wishes Rubin to amuse himself with useful books and finish his last year next spring and summer. Mr. Carrell has agreed to undertake Meriwether Lewis’s business for 20 pounds a year and may be displaced at any time that his mother or Cousin William Meriwether think Rubin is adequate to the task. At the expiration of six months, he expects to go to Kentucky and wants papers and information concerning the lands in that country together with sufficiency of money to pay the taxes. “I am quite delighted with a soldier’s life . . .” (3 pages, transcript included), 1794 Nov 24

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Meriwether Lewis Papers is an artificial, or subject-based, collection gathered to record the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the re-processing of the Meriwether Lewis Collection in 1999, several items were removed from the collection and returned to the archival collection in which they originally belonged. (Please consult the separation record at the end of this finding aid.)

Dates

1794 Nov 24

Conditions Governing Access

The Missouri Historical Society asks researchers to assist in the preservation of the collection by using either the microfilm or the published versions of documents at all times. Permission to access the original documents in the Meriwether Lewis Papers must be obtained from a member of the archives staff.