Interim Appointment: W.C.C. Clairborne Letter Book, 1804--1805 (Louisiana Purchase Collection)

Claiborne, William C. C.; Bradley, Jared William

ISBN 10: 0807126845 / ISBN 13: 9780807126844

Published by LSU Press, 2002

About this Item

hardback book and dust jacket in near fine condition,stated first printing.

Seller Inventory # 317040

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interim Appointment: W.C.C. Clairborne Letter Book, 1804--1805 (Louisiana Purchase Collection)
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807126845
• ISBN 13: 9780807126844
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography
  • social history
  • local history

About this title

Synopsis

William C. C. Claiborne, the first governor of Orleans Territory, was at the hub of officials who grappled with the political, diplomatic, and administrative challenges that arose following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Letters both to and from Claiborne during the critical months of 1804–1805, mysteriously excluded in 1917 from Dunbar Rowland’s Official Letter Books of W. C. C. Claiborne, 1801–1816, are now made widely accessible, over half of them published here for the first time.
To enhance appreciation of the letters, Jared William Bradley has furnished biographical sketches of thirty-one heretofore little-known individuals crucial to Claiborne’s correspondence, delineating their personalities and their contributions to the development of law and the establishment of American government in the French Creole society. Bradley also treats in four essays the origins and growth of the “Municipal,” or the New Orleans city council; two organizations of businessmen that were ensnared in the so-called Burr Conspiracy in 1807; and the early history of Fort St. Philip, which guarded access to New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico.
Bradley’s essays joined with 218 of Claiborne’s letters makes Interim Appointment of incalculable value. It provides fresh insights into the political, constitutional, and social histories of Louisiana and the United States.

About the Author

Jared William Bradley is retired from the State Library of Louisiana, where he was head of the serials division. He is a contributing author to Handbook of World History and Louisiana Since the Longs, 1960 to Century's End.