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Give my regards to all our friends, Mr. Wood, the Ogles, Mr. Drouin, Miss Blundell, Miss Finch, but above all to Miss Collinton, whose first name I forget. Scold Laura for me. She hasn’t written me. At least, I haven’t yet received a letter from her. Nevertheless, I embrace her as well as you, and my Virginie, my Eliza, my Azelia, your two brothers – all very tightly and tenderly. Also bring some Spanish onions to plant and produce seed. Here they have only miserable little onions. 60
Letter 17. New Orleans, March 5, 1809 [From Jean-Baptiste Florian to his wife, still in England] [On the cover:] Single M. Florian Care of Simpson & Davison Merchts. London This letter, my dearly beloved, will be only a duplicate in some ways of the one I wrote you the day before yesterday, but for fear that the other may be lost in the mail I am writing you again by a ship which is leaving for New York. I told you that after a long wait I had finally received your letter of last October 4. I see by the postmark that it only left New York on February 7, and quite surely if it came by the October packet boat it should have arrived a long time before that date: but if I judge from the color it must have remained at least a month, being smoked on M. Cheriot’s mantelpiece. That gentleman may be a very fine man, but I like neither his person nor his manners, & I beg of you from now on to address your letters to Duplanty, [in English] at M. Duplanty, Merchant, New York [end English] who will send them on to me. Duplanty is a very estimable fellow and highly regarded, who knows more about business than that Mysterious Cheriot, whatever the latter may say, & I would count much more upon his help than the other’s. I told you and I repeat with great pleasure how delighted I am with what you told me of the progress made by Virginie [Virginia, his first daughter] and Eliza [his third daughter]. Embrace them most tenderly for me, and do the same to that little sprite Azelie [his fourth daughter], to get her to follow the good example of her sisters. You do well to learn painting upon velvet; learn also to paint and varnish tables and work boxes as does Miss Soley. I believe they call that [in English] “to Japan” [end English; “Japonnaise”?]. All these talents will be welcomed very avidly here. I have already told you that there is all hope of enrolling students for a school in this place, so try to increase your skill on the harp and to have some pieces well prepared to play before people. Also Laura should get very good at singing & even dancing to teach the young girls in the school. <strong>The</strong>re are a few teachers here, but they are at most on the same level as those at St. Malo, & to make a success we would have to offer everything ourselves in the school. My trip to the Atacapas has been delayed for a few days, our dear brother Emmanuel having been kept to his room by an attack of rheumatism. His clerk is obliged to travel out and I am keeping the store. I do not know what effect the climate will have on me in the future: up till now I stand it quite well and am in better health than I ever have been. 61
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Section 2: Letters from Other Famil
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France still correspond, keep track
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Published Writings of Jean Baptiste
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Page 21 and 22: In case you receive from Messrs. Fa
Page 23 and 24: Letter 5. Halifax [Nova Scotia], 4
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Page 27 and 28: sorrow, my tender friend, that I ca
Page 29 and 30: Letter 7. Philadelphia, October 30,
Page 31 and 32: We crossed the state of New Jersey
Page 33 and 34: Letter 8. [Lancaster, PA] November
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Page 37 and 38: Letter 9. Pittsburg[h], Sunday, Nov
Page 39 and 40: years, one finds himself with a ret
Page 41 and 42: Mr. and Mrs. Linton, with all the r
Page 43 and 44: ecause the current was so rapid and
Page 45 and 46: Letter 11. Natchez, 4 January, 1809
Page 47 and 48: of 20 to 22 cents per pound, as it
Page 49 and 50: Letter 12. New Orleans, January 23,
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Page 53 and 54: will see all the country from there
Page 55 and 56: Letter 14. New Orleans, February 11
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Page 59: They think only of
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Page 65 and 66: [p 2] Madame Sain [Dai?] will entru
Page 67 and 68: Letter 19. Montesano [West Florida,
Page 69 and 70: Bring along also a few bushels of S
Page 71 and 72: Letter 20. Montesano [West Florida,
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Page 89 and 90: I have seen the Couissin girls, the
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Page 95 and 96: Your sisters had promised to reimbu
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Page 99 and 100: My dear Papa, My sisters have told
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sad, as did I, just a passerby on t
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almost all the summer in the countr
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Letter 12. [Letter from Pierre Rene
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Adieu dear Friend! I hope that at l
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Letter 14. [Letter in response from
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attachments which had been planned
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ealize only too well by what I have
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For two months, while I have been a
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I don’t have time on this occasio
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not complain of anything, but his t
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Letter 19. [Letter to Azelie Floria
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Letter 20. Emma’s Narrative Proba
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On Saturday the 21 st [unfortunatel
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I told him I was not afraid, but as
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