ALS, 1803 May 5 : Madrid, to the American ministers at Paris [Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe].

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ALS, 1803 May 5 : Madrid, to the American ministers at Paris [Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe].

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Pinckney, here serving as U.S. minister to Spain, writes of the necessity "for our Government to fix & arrange this business definitively with France ... The United States must direct themselves to the French Government for the purchase of the Territories ..." Unbeknownst to Pinckney, Monroe and Livingston had just negotiated the Louisiana Purchase.

1 1/2 p. ; 23 x 19 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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