CONTENTS OF VOLUME II

DOCUMENTS (continued):

Correspondence of English Ambassadors regarding Louisiana

Letters from Prefect Laussat to Decrés

Letter from Talleyrand to Decrés .

The Casa Irujo Correspondence

The Boundaries of Louisiana

Louisiana transferred to Laussat

Letters from Governor Claiborne to Madison

II

27

61

65

137

215

223

Letters from Claiborne and Wilkinson to Madison

287

Memorials to Claiborne

297

Letter from Claiborne and Wilkinson to Laussat

Watkins's Mission for the Government of Louisiana.

303

307

ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME II

MAP OF ORLEANS TERRITORY WITH PART OF WEST FLORIDA

AND THE TERRITORY OF MISSISSIPPI

facing page 82

By Bartolomé Lafon, geographical engineer of New Orleans, 1806, from
information obtained from the French, Spaniards, and English in 1805.
From the original in the Library of Congress

MAP OF LOUISIANA AND Part of the Floridas, 1803

From the original in Robin's Voyages

151

CORRESPONDENCE

OF

ENGlish Ambassadors regarding Louisiana Thornton to Hawkesbury, January 3 and 31, and May 30, 1803, Washington. Merry to Hawkesbury, December 6 (two letters), 1803, and June 2, 1804, Georgetown and Washington.

Thornton to Hammond, January 29, 1804, Washington.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Copied from transcripts in the Department of State, Washington, Bureau of Rolls and Library, Adams Transcripts, British State Papers, vol. i The originals are in the British archives.