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good milk cow with her calf costs 12 to 15 piasters, and all this is worth more here than in New Orleans. <strong>The</strong>re is really no comparison. As for the country and the climate, I find them more and more agreeable. You always see the sun shining in a clear sky, the nights are cool, and there are so few mosquitos in these higher lands that one could sleep all night without a mosquito net. <strong>The</strong> magnolias are in flower at this time, and scent the atmosphere. For several days we have been eating mulberries. It is quite odd that the mulberry, so late in blooming in Europe, is here very early. <strong>The</strong>re is no doubt about the natural riches of this region. <strong>The</strong> woods are full of Muscadelles [grapevines], which produces very good roots [grapes?], as thick as the end of your little finger, and need only to be cultivated to outdo those in Europe. <strong>The</strong> aromatic trees, the gum resin, the Patina [prima?] Christi from which they extract castor oil, medicinal plants of a quality that is most efficacious, are found everywhere. How can people stay dragging on in misery, deprived of dignity, in Europe and especially in England, as so many of our friends are doing, when they can come settle in a country where living costs so little, where with a little work they can make a fortune, and where one finds, in the climate, the soil, circumstances and society, everything that makes life agreeable! I have already told you that the father, mother and sister of Madame Herries and her husband, Mr. Skipwith, former consul-general of the United States in France, are supposed to come this fall from England to come here, and I sent you their address, so that you can see about coming with them. Mr. Herries recommends strongly that you all come to Pensacola, Havana, or Mobile, from which points you could easily come on here, and you would have by this route the advantage of bringing in everything you carry with you at a duty rate of only six percent. Besides, you won’t be able to bring in anything into ports of the United States. Here we are only 30 miles from Bayou Sara. A pretty little town is being established there. You get there by horse in 8 to 10 hours. I haven’t yet gone to see Mr. Kirkland, for I am always waiting on more recent news to take to him. I will go soon and take with me the printed advertisements for distribution in the neighborhood. <strong>The</strong>re are two or three hundred rich residents at Bayou Sara and at Thompson’s Creek, in that region rightly called Feliciana, and they are waiting impatiently for us to set ourselves up, so I’m told, having no other way of educating their children than to send them to Philadelphia or Baltimore. Give a thousand regards to all our friends, French and English. If they knew the beauty and bountifulness of this country, they would come here in droves with you. Embrace all my four dear little ones, yourself, and all your brothers, with all the tenderness of a father, husband and brother. Oh, when will I have the good fortune that is due me in having you all reunited with me! I again urge you strongly not to forget to bring with you all manner of seeds, nuts, kernels, onions and roots, of fruit, flowers, vegetables, etc., etc., and especially of alfalfa, 72
ye-grass, clover, sainfoin, [Lucerne grass or clover] as well as bloodwort and Burnet grass, which do very well in a hot country. If you could bring along some birds in pairs, such as pinsons [chaffinches], linnets, goldfinches, green finches, blackbirds [magpies?], and singing thrush, that would be a fine present to make to this country to destroy the numerous insects. 73
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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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Page 27 and 28: sorrow, my tender friend, that I ca
Page 29 and 30: Letter 7. Philadelphia, October 30,
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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 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 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 117 and 118: Adieu dear Friend! I hope that at l
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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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