Letters

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Notes: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Manuscripts of the Dibner collection, 426; Collected by Bern Dibner for his Burndy Library in Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1941. Donated to the Smithsonian Libraries in 1974 by Dibner DSI
Summary: Two A.L.S., one (an 6 Brumaire 2, i.e. 1797 Oct. 23, Paris) to the Minister of War asking to accelerate the payment of an amount requested by the inhabitants of St. Jean Barbe, and one (an 7 Fructidor 27, i.e. 1799 Sept. 13, Paris) urging the signing of a document he submitted 3 weeks earlier ; in French