The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 62, July 1958 - April, 1959 Page: 536
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Letter from the Directors to Monsieur de La
Harpe, Commander at the Cadodaquious.
We have received, Sir, your letters of April 28 and August 4. We
see with pleasure the progress that you make in the discovery of lands.
We can only exhort you to continue, as you have commenced, in fol-
lowing the orders that you have received from the Council of Louis-
iana, and assure you that you shall find on the part of the Company
all the gratification that it will be able to procure for you and that
it will satisfy all of your expenses. We advise you that the intention
of the Company is not to make war upon the Spaniards of Mexico,
on the contrary to trade with them in amity in order to attract trade
from your quarters. You regulate yourself according to the above in
all your undertakings. Your zeal and your past conduct gives us reason
for believing that you know to reconcile your ideas with the inten-
tions of the Company, in comparison with which we will return to
you the justice due to your activity and good will.
We are very completely, Sir, your very humble and very obedient
servants.
Devillardeau, Bienville, C. Legac, Hubert.
Special letter from M. de Bienville to M. de La Harpe.
I have received, Sir, the letter that you have done me the pleasure
of writing to me from the Nassonites of April g, by which I under-
stand that you are content to have gone as far as to the place where
you are. It is necessary to have as much courage as you have in order
to have resisted so painful hardships. I am very obliged to you for
the great detail you have troubled yourself to address to me. You
will always please me very much by writing to me, when you have the
occasion. I believe that the war that we have at present with Spain
ought to divert you from undertaking to go to New Mexico. I am
sending you the passport or commission, that you wrote to me for;
satisfy yourself in whether you believe that there may be no risk for
you from the savages, allies of the Spaniards. I am persuaded that,
if you do not succeed in these important discoveries, no person ought
to undertake it. I informed the Company and had it to understand
the consequence and the advantage for the country, if you might be
able to succeed in it, which I do not doubt in the least, since I made
it of your capacity.
M. Legac has seemed to be to have sent the rest of your effects to
New Orleans by the vessel of Bellanger during his sojourn at Pensa-
cola. The war which we have with the Spaniards has not permitted
me, nor permits me yet to go to New Orleans. These Gentlemen Direc-
tors have found themselves in such great embarrassment, since they
have assembled, that I have not had the time to have adjusted the
gratuity which was due to you for having your effects transported at536
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