Letter signed Mel. Amoureaux, New Madrid, to Meriwether Lewis, governor of Louisiana Territory, St. Louis. He has seen the prospectus of Lewis’s work and would like to be listed as a subscriber. Some of his neighbors and fellow farmers have also expressed a wish to become subscribers and are merely waiting Lewis’s reply. Also wishes to express his satisfaction in common with all the Louisianans of the choice of Lewis to govern the territory. (2 pages), 1807 May 31

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9

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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

1807 May 31

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.