Manuscripts
Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil papers
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- Description
- Vaudreuil's personal and official correspondence (including 3 volumes of letterbooks), his communications with the Ministry of the Marine during his term as governor of Louisiana; other papers relating to Indian and colonial affairs.
- Production date
- 1740-1753.
- Call number
- mssLO Boxes 1-8
- Additional description
- Correspondents include Jacques Pierre Taffanel, marquis de la Jonquière; Antoine Louis Rouillé, comte de la Jouy, Barthelemy (?) Macarty-Mactique, Jean Fréderic Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas, and Honore Michel de Villebois.
- Provenance
- Purchased with the Loudoun Papers from the Campbell family through the agency of Sotheby's and Sir Joseph Duveen, 1923. The papers were acquired by Lord Loudoun in 1756 through the agency of Thomas Pichon, Vaudreuile's secretary in Louisiana and a double agent. Pichon had obtained the papers from Francois Pierre de Rigaud, brother of the Marquis de Vaudreuil, who was captured at sea by the English in June 1755.
