Elizabeth Howard West papers, 1783-1942.

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West, Elizabeth Howard, 1873-1948. Elizabeth Howard West papers, 1783-1942.

Elizabeth Howard West papers, 1783-1942.

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Papers are chiefly typewritten transcriptions of correspondence between officials representing Spanish colonial rule in Louisiana and Florida, among them Esteban Miró, the governor of Spanish colonial Louisiana, and representatives of Panton, Leslie, and Company, a firm of Scottish traders that began trading with the native peoples of the U.S. Southeast during the Revolutionary War. The correspondence was accumulated by Elizabeth Howard West in preparation for writing a monograph on the firm. The correspondence largely concerns the efforts of William Panton, an agent in the firm, to obtain permission to trade with Native Americans within the territories controlled by the Spanish; complaints about American competition, the interference in the firm's work by American settlers, and the destruction of its trading posts; and the movements of Alexander McGillivray, leader of the Creek nation and a friend and associate of Panton. Another sequence of letters concerns the efforts of Panton's executor to secure compensation for losses and debts owed to the firm by citizens or inhabitants who were subjects of British rule at the time the debts were incurred but became citizens or inhabitants of the United States following the American Revolutionary War. A separate group of correspondence pertains to Elizabeth Howard West's scholarly writings and her attempts to track down documents associated with Panton, Leslie, and Company in Great Britain and the United States.

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