well as unpublished manuscripts like this volume that is one of our jules this ok was kept by leonard claiborne appointed by jefferson to receive louisiana from the french for the louisiana purchase. it is amazing he was only 28 at the time and was governor within the mississippi territory. this is the correspondence he said back to madison and other officials to let them know how it was going here in louisiana after the changeover. not always smoothly. the thing to think about it is back then october, at teenine 4325 obviously they did not have word-processing machines so if they wanted to keep a copy, they had to have a clerk copy it for them. this is the copy they kept of what they sent forward to washington as well as correspondence for here in louisiana. it was an interesting time. it was quite uncertain and there was a lot of debate and doubt as to whether louisiana would actually stay part of the united states. the french felt they had a claim and the spanish felt they have a claim in that made it hard for claiborne to establish the goven