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Laws of Michigan, 1848
Laws of Connecticut. 1848
Laws of Georgia, 1847.
Laws of Congress. 1848
Resolutions and Private Acts of Connecticut
Hutchinson
Mississippi Code ..
Twenty-third Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society, Boston
Do.
Index.
Stud Book français, Régistre des chevaux de pur sang nés ou importés en France
C. C. Royer
Notes économiques sur l'administration des richesses
Alphonse de P
Des irrigations suivant la loi du 16 Septembre, 1807
L. Moll
Manuel d'agriculture.
De Puibusque
Dictionnaire municipal
1 2 6
Cs. Ladoucette
De l'influence des divers modes de location
M. Pichat.
Pratique des semailles à la volée ..
J. P. Bompart
Abrégé sur la culture de l'olivier
J. A. Schlipf
Manuel populaire d'agriculture
1
1
De Torcy
Des remontes de l'armée ..
1 1
A. Sauzean
Agriculture de partie da Poitou. ..
P. A. Morin
Notice sur la castration des vaches
H. Bouley Discours prononcé à la distribution des prix de l'Ecole Royale d'Alfort. Report of the Joint Library Committee of the Legislature of New York on the subject of the International Exchange
De Gasparin
Cours d'agriculture .
Gnides des comices et des propriétaires
Agriculture française-par les directeurs de l'Agriculture
Tableau général du commerce de la France avec ses colonies et les puissances étrangères pendant les années 1843- 44-'45
Rapports généraux des travaux du conseil de salubrité pendant les années 1829 à 1839
L. Mo'l Picard .
Colonisation et agriculture de l'Algérie
L'agriculture raisonnée ..
N. de Buffon
Des canaux d'arrosage de l'Italie septentrionale dans le nr rapport avec ceux de la France ..
Ephrem Houel. M.s. de Travanet
Traité complet de l'élève du cheval en Bretagne.
L. L .***
Épargne et Prévoyance ..
Cte. Odard
Ampélographie, on traite des crépiges.
1
Chas. de Boigne
Du cheval en France ..
Traité sur la nudadie de poitrine du gros bétail.
E. Jacquemin.
L'Allemagne agricole, industrielle et politique
E. Lecouteux
Traité elementaire du département de la Seine
A. N. Derotrie
Commentaire sur les lois rurales françaises. .
Ls. Cossin
Les avantages de la reunion territoriale .
Notes économiques sur l'administration des richesses (atlas) Histoire des Français ..
T. Lavallée
Ministère de la marine-compte rendu au roi de l'emploi des fonds alloues de puis 1239 pour l'enseignement religieux et elementaire des noirs
A. Malo Dombasle
Elements de comptabilité rurale, théorique et pratique Calendrier du bon cultivatent
1
1
1
1111381-3121 1 1 1 3 3 1 3 1
2 1 3 1 1 1
1
O. Delafond.
1
1
1 1 1
1112 1
·
1 1 1 3 1 150 3 3 1
Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthrophy
Deslix
Digest
1 50 50 3 2 1 1
Routier des îles Antilles
Annales de la Société Séricole, fondée en 1837, pour la propagation et l'amélioration de l'industrie de la soie .
Manuel élémentaire du cultivature alsacien.
1 1 1 1
An pays et aux chambres-le comice hippique
Do
Vingt pages à lire, on la question chevaline .
Préservatif d'agromanie empirique
C. C. Rover
9
Acts of 1847 Kentucky
Senate Journal of 1847-'48.
10
THE EARLY HISTORY OF LOUISIANA.
Transactions of the State librarian, S.c .- Continued.
BOOKS SENT BY OTHER STATES, &C .- Continued.
Authors' names.
Works.
Number of volumes.
Royer ..
Des institutions du crédit foncier
· 2
L. Bentz
Premiers éléments d'agriculture
2 1
Julien .
Résumé sur la culture des vers à soie
1
L. Estancelin
Recherches sur les voyages et découvertes des navigateurs Normands. . De la fabrication du fromage .
1 1
Conegliano.
Ministère de l'intérieur-projet de loi sur les prisons
1
J. Lechevalier
Rapport sur les marchés publics en Angleterre, en Belgique, en Hol- lande et en Allemagne 1 Questions relatives à l'abolition de l'esclavage. 1
Conseils généraux de l'agriculture, des manufactures et du commerce .. 4
BOOKS SENT BY OTHER STATES AND PRESENTED TO THE STATE LIBRARY, 1849.
C. Gonrault.
Histoire du calcul des probabilités
1
Strobhart
Equity Reports, South Carolina, Vol. 1.
2
Acts of Virginia, 1847, 1848
1
Acts of Wisconsin, 1848 ..
Acts of Massachusetts, 1849
Acts of New Jersey. 1849
Acts of Delaware, 1849
3
Acts of Ohio, 1848, 1849
1
Acts of New York, 1849
Acts of New Hampshire, 1849
3
Acts of Michigan, 1849
1
Acts of New York. 72d session, 1849
1
Acts of Vermont, 1848
3
Acts of Missouri, 1849
?
Acts of Illinois, 1849
2
Acts of New York. 71st session, 1848
1 2
Warfield Gill
Digest
Reports, Vols. 1 and 2
Twenty-third Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society (Boston)
1
Southern Quarterly Review, 1848.
1
Metcalf
Reports. II.
Zabriskie
Reports, Vol. 1. part 1 and 2
2
Harrington
Reports, Vol. IV, 1848 ...
1 1
English
State Trials of United States
1
Iredell
Equity Reports. Vol. V.
Griswold
Ohio Reports, Vol. VII.
1
Smedes & Marshall
Mississippi Reports, 1849 ..
1
A. Vattemare.
Address on International Exchanges
2 1
Report of the Bank Commissioners, 1849
1 1 1
Washburn
Reports of Vermont, Vol. IV
1
Journal of the Convention of Wisconsin
1
Reports of Missouri. 1848
1
Thirty-first Ammal Report of the Controllers of the Public Schools of the City and County of Philadelphia
1 1
Revised Statutes of Connecticut. 1849
1
Documents of the first session of the 30th Congress
78
Biennial Register of Officers in the Service of the United States
United States Exploring Expedition, Vol. VIII .
11 1
Atlas connected with the Exploring Expedition of the United States 1
Doane
Journal of Congress, 1813. 1
Total. 1,027
2
Wharton
Pennsylvania Roports, 1849
1
Report of the Board of Visitors and Trustees of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, 1849 ..
Report of the Warden, Physician, and Chaplain of the State Prison, 1849. House Journal, 2d session. 30th Congress .
Journal of the House of Representatives of Connecticut, 1849 ..
1
Texas Reports, Vol. I ..
Ministère de la marine et des colonies, commission instituée par déci- sion royale du 26 mai 1840, pour l'examen des questions relatives à l'esclavage
1 1
Annales des haras ...
V. Rendu
Manuel d'agriculture ...
Rapport sur les questions coloniales ...
2 3
1
Acts, Reports, and Resolutions of South Carolina, 1848.
New Jersey-Cases Determined in the Supreme Court, 1845. Reports of Arkansas, 1849
11
THE EARLY HISTORY OF LOUISIANA.
Transactions of the State librarian, &c .- Continued.
NUMBER OF VOLUMES SENT BY OTHER STATES AND PRESENTED TO THE STATE LIBRARY.
Number of volumes.
Number in 1846
41
Number in 1847
437
Number in 1848.
393
Number in 1849
156
Total
1,027
DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA RECEIVED IN THE STATE LIBRARY.
Works.
Number of volumes.
During the year 1846 :
Debates of Louisiana State Convention ; English, 97; French, 98
195
Laws of 1846
529
Journal of Senate
1, 401 486
Robinson's Reports, 11th vol.
200
Robinson's Reports, 12th vol.
200
. During the year 1847:
1,945
Journal of the Senate of Lonisiana, 1847.
248
Journal of the House of Representatives, 1847 246
Executive Journal of the Senate, 1847 236
Executive Journal of the Senate, French, 1847
245
Louisiana Annual Reports, Ist vol
918
During the year 1848:
2,000
Journal of the Senate of Louisiana, 1848
250
Journal of the House of Representatives of Louisiana, 1848 250
Executive Journal of the Senate, 1848
250
During the year 1849:
2, 000
Journal of the Senate, 1848, extra session of December
230
Journal of the House of Representatives, 1848, extra session of December.
230
Executive Journal of the Senate, 1848, extra session of December 200
300
Third annual reports
800
Total
12, 559
Number of documents published by the State of Louisiana :
Received in the State library during the year 1846 ..
3,011
Received in the State library during the year 1847.
3, 838
Received in the State library during the year 1848. 2,750
Received in the State library during the year 1849 3,760
Total number
12, 539
BOOKS DELIVERED TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND PURCHASERS.
During the year 1846:
43
Code of Practice.
6
Moreauf's Digest
50
Bullard & Curry's Digest
7
Griner's Digest
4
Martin's Reports
69
Louisiana Reports
131
Robinson's Reports.
273
Robinson's Penal Laws.
41
Journals of the Legislature
38
Report of the Board of Currency
1
Journal of House of Representatives.
Laws of 1847
Laws of 1848
Laws of 1848, extra session of December
Bertin, Répertoire des successions.
Civil Code.
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THE EARLY HISTORY OF LOUISIANA.
Transactions of the State librarian, Sc .- Continued. · BOOKS DELIVERED TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND PURCHASERS-Continued.
.
Works.
Number of volumes.
During the year 1847 :
Civil Code ..
Code of Practice. Moreau's Digest.
Greiner's Digest
Martin's Reports (new series, 3 sets)
Louisiana Reports, Volume 2 3.
4
5.
6
7
8
9
10.
11
12.
13
14.
15.
16
17.
18
19
Robinson's Penal Laws. Robinson's Reports, Volume 1 2.
3
4
5
6
7.
9
10
11. 12
American State Papers.
Louisiana Convention Journal.
Debates of Louisiana Convention
Journal of the Senate of 1846
Journal of the House of Representatives of 1846
Partidas.
Laws of Louisiana from 1817 to 1846, inclusive. During the year 1848:
Civil Code
Code of Practice. Moreau's Digest
Louisiana Reports, Volume 1
2
3
4
5
6
7.
8
9 10
1 1
11.
1
12.
1
13.
1
14.
15 16
Robinson's Penal Laws
Debates of Louisiana Convention, 1845.
Louisiana Convention Journal. 1845 . .
Laws of Louisiana from 1807 to 1818. inclusive
During the year 1849:
$30 12
Civil Code. ...
Code of Practice
3 3 3
Dealix's Index
1
Robinson's Reports. Volume 1.
3
1
1
3
75
1
36 2 24 4
6 8 11 12 12 12 11 11 12 11 11 11 11 12 12 12 12 51 9 10 11 14 15 16 38 17 20 21 34 10 1
3 2
516 47 . 3 5 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 22 3
Moreau's Digest
Deslix's Digest
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THE EARLY HISTORY OF LOUISIANA.
Transactions of the State librarian, S.c .- Continued. BOOKS DELIVERED TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND PURCHASERS-Continued.
Works.
Number of volumes.
During the year 1849-Continued.
Robinson's Reports, Volume4 ..
5
6
7.
8
9
10
2
11
5
12
4 46
Annual Reports, Volume 1.
2
3
Bullard & Curry's Digest ..
Partidas. 10 sets.
State Convention Debates, 1845
Journal, 1845
1
Constitution of Louisiana, 1845
1
3
1828
2
1840.
2
1841.
2
1846
4
1847
5
1848.
1849.
Journal of the Senate of the State of Louisiana, 1841.
1842
1844.
1846.
1
1847.
1
1848.
5
Benjamin's and Slidell's Digest .
Acts of Congress, 1847.
1848 ..
Executive Document of Senate. 1848; extra session.
Louisiana Laws, from 1807 to 1848 (extra session), including 1807, 1808, 1809, 1816, 1817, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848 (1848, extra session).
292
Total.
3,647
NUMBER OF BOOKS DELIVERED TO PUBLIC OFFICERS AND PURCHASERS.
During the year 1846.
968
1847.
1,151
1848
747
1849
781
Total
3, 647
DOCUMENTS OF LOUISIANA DISTRIBUTED.
During the year 1846:
Louisiana convention, 1845. Debates to be forwarded to governors of States and to the conven- tion of the State of New York.
20
133
Laws of 1846 delivered to the secretary of state to be forwarded to members of the legislature Journals of the Sepate (1846) forwarded by the Siate librarian to members of the legislature. Journals of the Senate (1846) delivered to the secretary of state ...
12-
Journals of the House of Representatives delivered to the secretary of state ..
133
During the Year 1847 :
Laws of 1.17 delivered to the private secretary of the governor to be forwarded to members of the legislature and public officers
920
Journals of the Senate of Louisiana (1:47) delivered to Z. Ledoux, private secretary of the gov- ernor, to be forwarded to members of the legislature .
112
Journals of the House of Representatives (1847) delivered to the private secretary of the gov- error for members of the legislature
112
Excentive Journals of the Senate delivered to the private secretary of the governor for mem- bers of the legislature ...
112
Journals of the Savate delivered by the State librarian to members of the legislature and a few public officers .
18
7 25 1 1 1
6
1849.
1
1
1
10
1844
Journal of the House of Representatives, 1827
184 90 3 20 2
2 6 9 2
3
14
THE EARLY HISTORY OF LOUISIANA.
Transactions of the State librarian, &c .- Continued. DOCUMENTS OF LOUISIANA DISTRIBUTED-Continued.
Works.
Number of
volumes.
During the year 1847-Continued.
Journals of the House of Representatives delivered by the State librarian to members of the legislature and a few public officers.
18
Executive Journals of the Senate delivered by the State librarian to members of the legislature and public officers
18 102
Louisiana Annual Reports, 1st vol., 1846 During the year 1848:
Laws of 1848 delivered to the private secretary of the governor to be forwarded to members of the legislature
400
Journals of the Senate (1848) delivered to the private secretary of the governor for members of the legislature ..
132
Journals of the House of Representatives (1848) delivered to the private secretary of the gov- ernor to be forwarded to members of the legislature ...
.132
Executive Journals of Senate delivered to the governor's private secretary to be forwarded to members of the legislature ...
132
Journals of the Senate delivered by the State librarian to members of the legislature and a few public officers
22
Journals of the House of Representatives delivered by the State librarian to members of the legislature and a few public officers
23
Executive Journal of the Senate delivered by the State librarian to members of the legislature and publie officers ..
19
Louisiana Annual Reports, 1st vol., 1846 During the year 1849:
Laws of 1848 (extra session, December) delivered to the private secretary of the governor to be forwarded to members of the legislature.
832
Total.
3, 601
Number of documents distributed :
1846
417
1847
1,412
1848
940
1849
832
Total
3,601
BOOKS DELIVERED DURING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE OF 1848 AND NOT RETURNED BY THE MEMBERS TO WHOM THEY WERE LENT.
1
Aets of Congress, 1843 ..
1
Histoire des voyages, vols. 38 et 41
2
Debates of the Convention of Lonisiana, 1845.
4
Statutes at Large, vol. 5.
1
Civil Code
1
Deslix Supreme Court Digest.
1
Statutes of Louisiana ..
137
Second Annual Reports
1
Journals of the Legislature
30
Total
179
GENERAL BECAPITULATION.
Books purchased during the years 1846, 1847. 1549, 1×49. 1,008
Books presented to the State library and received during the same four years 1,027
Books acquired during the same years per exchange 83
Increase of the library during these four vedly
2,118
Number of book - delivered to public officers and purchasers during the four years ..
Documents distributed ..
3. 601
Books delivered in 1599 to members of the legislature and not returned.
179
In 1817 $100 had been received by the State libration, a- appears from the report I made in the year 181% (Jannary), out of which 242.20 having been spent in 1847, and Sto, la in 1818, a balance of $3.65 remained in my hands ; I have spent them to have the library swept and cleaned in New Orleans.
H. PAUL CAIRE. State Librarian.
BATON ROUGE, January 23. 150.
----
Number of documents puldished by the state during these four years and sent to the library 3,647
12, 559
Revised Statutes of Michigan
80
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B .- Correspondence annexed to the report of the secretary of state on the State library.
MADRID, January 1, 1849.
Hon. CHARLES GAYARRE,
Secretary of State :
DEAR SIR : I have duly received your favor covering a bill of ex- change on Messrs. Baring & Co., at sixty days, and dated the 17th of November, to be applied to the expense of copying documents for the State of Louisiana.
I inclose a note just received from M. Gayangos, which will inform . you as to the progress of the business. On his return to Madrid you shall have a full account of his expenses. You will please inform me as to your wishes in having the documents forwarded-or would you pre- fer having them kept until the whole shall be complete ? As it is my purpose to return to the United States in the course of the year, I might bring them with me, unless some safe opportunity should before accrue.
I am, &c., 1755294
R. M. SAUNDERS.
MADRID, October 21, 1848.
Hon. CHAS. GAYARRE,
Secretary of State :
DEAR SIR : I wrote you a few days since informing you of M. Ga- yangos' operations. Inclosed is a letter I have just received from him.
In my last I requested you to forward as heretofore the balance of the appropriation, as it will be wanted. On M. Gayangos' return you shall have accounts of his expenses.
Respectfully,
R. M. SAUNDERS.
SEVILLA, FONDA DE LA UNION, August 31, 1848.
To R. M. SAUNDERS,
Minister Plenipotentiary :
SIR : I have until now delayed giving you an account of my opera- tions in this place, because I was told you were coming with the rest of the diplomatic corps.
After some delay, and in order to give the chief archivero time to look for and to bring out to me the papers, if any, which relate to Lou- isiana, I had the satisfaction to hear that there was a large room full of them that came from Madrid in 1828. I was accordingly installed in the said room, and allowed to begin my search. I soon found that the papers were precisely in the same state as when they came from the capital, tied in bundles, most of which were not ticketed, and without the least order or clasification. I began, however, my search, and among a mass of nseless trash was lucky enough to discover, at the end of some days, some bundles or liasses containing the correspond- ence of Unzaga, Navarro, Rendon, Morales, Miro. Carondelet, &c., who were either military governors or intendents of Louisiana. Icontinued my researches, and was agreeably surprised to find part of the secret correspondence of General Wilkinson, Dr. White, Colonel Dunn, and other parties, who offered to anex Kentucky, Ohio, and other States, and were undoubtedly in the pay of the Spanish Government, as may
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be fully proved by their own correspondence. Though these papers, as far as I can judge, are not complete (some of the public officers at Mad- rid having neglected to send their contingent at the time), I have no hesitation to say that much interesting matter may be selected from those I now have in hand ; and, moreover, as on my return to Madrid I shall not fail to look also in the archives of the war office and in those of the Suprimido Consejo de Indias, I have no doubt we shall find there whatever is wanting here.
So far with regard to the papers themselves. With regard to my proceedings here, I deem it necessary to call your attention to the fol- lowing facts. The papers, as I said before, are in the greatest possible disorder, no attempt having been made to classify them since they came from Madrid. Most of them have no other inscription but this : Lou- isiana, Florida Occidental ; a few only have the year marked on the outside, in red letters, and the greater part, not to say all of them, con- tain such heterogeneous matter that it requires a good deal of time and considerable patience to ascertain their contents. The archives are open only five days in the week, from ten to one. No transcripts are allowed except those made by the clerks of the establishment, and that accord- ing to a tariff which is more than double the price usually paid at Madrid.
The above circumstance will naturally retard my operations, and in order to examine 285 bundles and mark out what is worthy of transcript it will be necessary for me to devote at least four months. In order to save expenses, I make, as I go on, extracts of such papers as are not sufficiently interesting to be transcribed at full. All together, and when the copies here being made are paid for, I calculate that it will cost, about $500, or one-fourth of the sum allowed by the State of Louisiana ; but, on the other hand, I feel confident that the .documents obtained will be found to be highly interesting, and that after this the expense to be incurred at Madrid will be proportionately small.
Not knowing for certain whether you will decide to visit this place, I have thought proper to address you on this subject.
Iremain, &c.,
PASCUAL DE GAYANGOS.
CADIZ, October 14, 1818.
To R. M. SAUNDERS, Esq .. Minister Plenipotentiary :
SIR : I write from Cadiz, where I have found in the government archives some papers relative to Louisiana. It would appear, as they inform me, that they came here from the Island of Cuba, together with others about Florida, and were destined to Seville; but either from the officer's carelessness or some other cause they were never sent to their destination, and here they are. As soon as I have ascertained whether there is anything in them worth transcribing I shall go back to Seville.
Thinking that you may wish to write to M. Gayarre, I inclose you a copy of the letter which I wrote to yon whilst in Seville, where I thought you were not coming.
About the end of the month, or beginning of next, I shall want more funds: but I will let you know in time.
Trusting that all your family are doing well, I remain, &e ..
PASCUAL DE GAYANGOS.
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NEW ORLEANS, January 6, 1849.
To R. M. SAUNDERS, Esq., Minister Plenipotentiary :
SIR : I have received with great pleasure your letter dated Madrid, October 21, 1848, inclosing two letters from M. Gayangos, by which I see that I am soou to be put in possession of a rich harvest of docu- ments. I am expecting them with all the impatience of an historian who has become enamored of the subject on which his attention has been fixed so long.
In my letter of the 20th of November last I informed you that I had transmitted to yon directly, and to Messrs. Baring, Brothers & Co., of London, triplicate drafts drawn by Schmidt & Co., of this city, ou John Louis Emmé & Co., London, for £206 5-8 sterling, of which I hope that you will soon acknowledge the receipt.
Very respectfully, &c.,
CHARLES GAYARRE.
LONDON, December 29, 1848, To the Hon CHARLES GAYARRE, Secretary of State :
SIR: We have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 20th ult., inclosing a remittance on account of Mr. Romulus M. Saunders, U. S. Minister at Madrid, of £206 5-8 sterling, on J. L. Emme & Co., for which we shall understand with him.
We remain, &c.,
BARING, BROTHERS & CO.
SEVILLE, December 25, 1848.
To R. M, SAUNDERS, Esq., Minister Plenipotentiary :
DEAR SIR: I suppose Mrs. de Gayangos has informed you of my trip to Gibraltar and the African coast. . Finding that, according to an old practice, the archives at this place were to be shut up to the public for three weeks, I availed myself of the opportunity to visit the African shores. I was absent about a month, the expenses of which I shall not, of course, charge to Mr. Gayarre.
Your letter of the 25th of October was not delivered to me until a few days ago, when, hearing from Mrs. de Gayangos that you had written to me, I applied to the post-office, and found that it had laid there for about six weeks. I see by its contents that you authorize me to draw upon you at three days' sight for the funds I may require; but I shall not have occasion to do so, as, not knowing your intentions, I had taken my measures accordingly and procured the sum required, engaging myself to pay the same on my return to Madrid.
I shall not, therefore, trouble you until I go back, which will be at the beginning of next month. Everything was finished. and I ready to depart by the 15th, when a sudden and unexpected discovery of some important papers obliged me to devote a few days more to their perusal, and the holidays coming on before I had finished my new task I was unfortunately detained much longer than I expected. But whoever has anything to do with Spanish affairs must needs have patience and resignation if he intends to accomplish this object. I cannot tell you the exact sum which I may require shortly after my return to the cap-
II. Mis. 22 --- 2
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ital, as the chief archivero has not sent me his bill for the last two months, and I have agreed to pay the money into the hands of his brother at Madrid, but I presume the balance in my favor may be from 50 to 60 pounds sterling.
Believe me, &c.,
PASCUAL DE GAYANGOS.
NEW ORLEANS, February 10, 1849.
To R. M. SAUNDERS, ESq., Minister Plenipotentiary :
DEAR SIR: I hasten to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st of January, inclosing one from Mr. de Gayangos dated at Seville on the 25th of December last. I am delighted at the information that his researches have been so very successful, and that he has again discov- ered some important papers.
As to your inquiry whether the documents already procured shall be kept until the whole be complete, I think the best plan would be to send by the first safe conveyance whatever may be on hand. On your re- turn to the United States, to which you allude, you might then bring with you either the balance or whatever might be ready at the time.
I am exceedingly anxious to lay my hands on the long expected his- torical treasure, which I owe to your kind exertions and to the en- lightened researches of Mr. de Gayangos, to whom I beg you to present my warmest acknowledgments.
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