St Louis February 17th- 1801
Sr
Herein Included you will find your Certificate of Survey, together
with the three petitions Granted by the Lieuts. Governors Don Zenon
Trudeau and De Lassus I Would recommend to you not to alter
the folds and to take the best Care not to Spoil it any way untill
you arrive at New Orleans for as the Deed of Grant which Shall be
Delivered to you is to be written underneath if it was not in a Good
order there might arise Some difficultys
I have requested Mr. Pascal D'etchemendy to Call upon you for
the payment of the Fifty Dollars which you are now owing me.
Which Sum with that of twenty five Dollars for which I have placed
myself upon you in favor of Mr. Thomas Maddin make up the Sum
of Seventy five Dollars full Ballance of the two hundred and twenty
five which you had agreed to pay me for the Compleat Survay of
your Land
If for your own Satisfaction you would wish to have a Separate
map of Your Land upon a Scale Double of that of your Certificate
and upon which I Could write every word in english with the help
of Mr. Bellier I Could do and Send it to you for the time you might
want it and in the time of it's being delivered to you I Could tell
you what I Should think Just for you to pay me which I Cannot
tell but [by] the time that I may be Doing of it
If as I have been told you go down to New-Orleans I have no
letter to give to you Since you are very well acquainted with Mr.
Zenon Trudeau who will Suport your rights try to get a letter from
Mr. Maxwell to his friend Mr. Leonard Gilbert the King's treasurer
and Doing now the Duty of Contador which Gives him the
preponderency and the second office of the Intendency he is a very amiable
man and speaks very good english loves Joy and is the friend of
mankind ask him also [mutilated] for Don Walche his friend who
is a Minister Very amiable and an [mutilated] Irishman. Do not
go also without asking from Mr. [mutilated] letter from him to his
Son in Law Mr Derbigny my particular friend you will also find at
New Orleans a very handsome and Very well regulated mason's
Loge.
If your Intention is to return through the United States I wish
you would be So good as to let me know of it that I might Send to
you Letters for my friend Mr Chevalier.
After having told you what I think more convenient to your
Interests I have only to assure you of my Sincere wish for your Success
in all your undertakings I have not the least doubt but the Sheet
Lead and Shot will be a Very Good article and In every thing which
you may have to Do with the Government I have not the least Doubt
but you know what Steps you are to take In order to Succeed
Anto Soulard
P. S. be So good as to present my Best respects to Mrs. Austin