Letter signed Michel Amoureux, Ste. Genevieve, to Charles Gregoire, care of Jesse S. Duval & Company, Philadelphia. Mr. Bogy has probably given you details of the commerce in this country. There is an abundance of European merchandise in Atlantic ports. Everywhere there is a shortage of good woolens and hardware. Our citizens should be induced to turn more to raising sheep and manufacturing good strong woolens to meet the increase in the European population. I have no basis on which to make a satisfactory opinion on our War with England but hope daily for a general peace. I return your note on Mr. Samuel Anderson, which I was unable to collect. Explains circumstances of the note and information about the family, which may assist in the collection of the note. Names mentioned: Mrs. Samuel Anderson and Samuel Anderson Jr. Places mentioned: Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Canada, United States, France, Portugal, Spain, South America, Russia, and L'Orient, France. (4 pages, in French with translation), 1812 Dec 29

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The collection consists of correspondence, bills, receipts, accounts, and other documents of the related Amoureux, Bolduc, and Langlois families of Ste. Genevieve; surveys by Antoine Soulard of property of Francois Moreau and Pierre Delassus de Luzieres; letters of William G. Cox to his family regarding his service with the Exeter Union Guards during the Civil War (1860-1862); documents concerning the lead mining interests of Louis Bolduc; information pertaining to restoration of the Bolduc House in Ste. Genevieve in 1961; a copy of an inventory of the Bolduc House; and a transcript of an interview with Miss Zoe Bolduc, May 1956. This collection also includes a ledger of unidentified merchandise accounts from Ste. Genevieve, 1811-1814, with a 1932 guest register, possibly from the Bolduc House, at the center of the volume; and a daybook of the C.C. Bolduc general store in Ste. Genevieve, 1859-1862. The collection includes documents in French, some with translations.