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6,000 piasters every year in profit. Let this serve to convince my dear little girls of the benefits of talent and education. This is the surest resource against all the misfortunes of life. Embrace them all tenderly, and above all do all you can to come here as quickly as possible. I still have not been able to go to Bayou Sara. I will go the first day I can. A thousand greetings to all our friends. 70
Letter 20. Montesano [West Florida, Spanish Territory, now Louisiana] 30 April 1809 [From Jean-Baptiste Florian to his wife, still in England. Addressed on the outside to:] M. Florian In care of Messrs. Simpson and Danson, Merchants London Forwarded New York _____ 18, 1809 Yours very _______ R. O. Duplanty I hope, my beloved, that all my letters are reaching you, but I greatly fear that they are reaching you only after a long delay, due to the negligence and ill-will of Mr. Cheriot, to whom I was in the habit of sending them. Would you believe that he has forwarded to me only your first letter since the beginning of October, and it was only 15 days ago that I received the letters from Peter, Joseph and Laura, dated the 4 th , 5 th and 6 th of October. Not a single more recent one has reached me, although ships arrive every day from New York to New Orleans, and although mail arrives regularly each week. <strong>The</strong>re is something mysterious beneath this behavior of his. So send all your letters to me in care of Duplanty, Merchant at New York, who will send them to Emmanuel. I hope nevertheless that you won’t have much to write me after receiving this, and that you are getting ready to set out with your brothers and dear little girls to rejoin me. I have told you that I was at the home of Mr. William Herries, brother of Colonel Herries of the Westminister Horse Volunteers [this latter phrase in English], who is coming to set up a steam engine on the banks of the Mississippi River, where this land is situated. He wants to found a city here, and wants for us to establish ourselves here, where he wants me to run a college and you and a colleague to run a boarding school for young ladies. He will give us every possible assistance, paying in advance for the site and the materials for the building. In the meantime he is giving me the lower floor of his house and a small building next to it, to lodge students whom I may procure any day. Fifteen days ago I sent some advertisements to Emmanuel to put in the papers published in New Orleans. I am awaiting the results. You can judge the profit they make here, in charging 300 piasters a year for board, which makes almost 70 pounds sterling 36 -- and you can buy a young steer here, [p 2] ready to slaughter, weighing more than 400 pounds, for only 10 to 12 piasters. This makes meat cost, at the most, threepence halfpenny per pound, and other things are in proportion. A 36 This is an exchange rate of 4.29 piasters to the pound. 71
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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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Estelle Sims Collection. This consi
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Note on Translation and Holdings Wo
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Note on Monetary Exchange Value In
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Letter 1. 2 [Letter translated, not
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the education, with the compensatio
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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
Page 25 and 26: Joseph Marie Le Det de Segrais Pier
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
Page 35 and 36: sobbing of the women _____ _______
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,
Page 51 and 52: I have sent to Mrs. Kirkland letter
Page 53 and 54: will see all the country from there
Page 55 and 56: Letter 14. New Orleans, February 11
Page 57 and 58: Letter 15. New Orleans, February 12
Page 59 and 60: They think only of
Page 61 and 62: Letter 17. New Orleans, March 5, 18
Page 63 and 64: We have had news from England, of t
Page 65 and 66: [p 2] Madame Sain [Dai?] will entru
Page 67 and 68: Letter 19. Montesano [West Florida,
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Page 73 and 74: ye-grass, clover, sainfoin, [Lucern
Page 75 and 76: Section 2 Letters From Other Family
Page 77 and 78: as much for the grandeur as for the
Page 79 and 80: Your affectionate uncle, Jolly Patr
Page 81 and 82: ignorant of the renunciation which
Page 83 and 84: Eliza talks only about her pretty f
Page 85 and 86: Elizabeth Florian Talcott, later in
Page 87 and 88: Letter 5. [Letter from Marguerite M
Page 89 and 90: I have seen the Couissin girls, the
Page 91 and 92: I took [the girls?] to a grand ball
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Page 95 and 96: Your sisters had promised to reimbu
Page 97 and 98: Now I must scold you for not termin
Page 99 and 100: My dear Papa, My sisters have told
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Page 109 and 110: Duault is the most perfect and fine
Page 111 and 112: sad, as did I, just a passerby on t
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Page 115 and 116: Letter 12. [Letter from Pierre Rene
Page 117 and 118: Adieu dear Friend! I hope that at l
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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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