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The Lewis and Clark Expedition
A letter from Meriwether Lewis requesting payment for supplies used on the Lewis and Clark expedition, 1806.

A letter from Meriwether Lewis requesting payment for supplies used on the Lewis and Clark expedition, 1806.

Transcription:

Vincennes October 30th. 1806
Sir,
My Bill of Exchange No. 113 in favor of George Wallace Jnr. [[object Object]] on order for five hundred dollars, is an account of that sum advanced me in specie. and which when paid will be charged to me on the faith of my final settlement with the party who accompanied me to the Pacific Ocean, and for other public purposes.
I have the honor to be with due consideration.
Your Obt. [[object Object]] Servt. [[object Object]]
Meriwether Lewis Capt.
1st M’S. [[object Object]] Regt.[[object Object]] Infantry
Genl. [[object Object]] Henry Dearborn
Secretary of War

Citation Information
Lewis, Meriwether, “Meriwether Lewis letter, 1806,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/3b87383d36ac55406ccd0c1751baeded.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of the Montana Historical Society Research Center via Big Sky Country Digital Network.

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Item 2 of 14 in the Primary Source Set The Lewis and Clark Expedition

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A photograph of a portrait of Captain Meriwether Lewis, 1918.
A letter from Meriwether Lewis requesting payment for supplies used on the Lewis and Clark expedition, 1806.
A letter from Meriwether Lewis to President James Madison about Lewis’s journey to deliver papers to Washington, 1809.
Meriwether Lewis’s telescope, manufactured in 1795.
A list of presents for Native Americans purchased by Meriwether Lewis in preparation for his expedition, 1803.
A drawing by expedition sergeant Patrick Gass in 1807 of the men building their camps as they traveled.
A map of the Lewis and Clark expedition route overlaid on a map of the US in 1945.
A US dollar coin, minted in 2000, showing Lewis and Clark’s Shoshone guide, Sacagawea.
A 1903 map of the land gained through the Louisiana Purchase.
A picture of a Shoshone women and children, circa 1888-1892.
A photo of Mandan lodge made of sod similar to ones encountered by the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
A portrait of William Clark, circa 1790-1820.
A portrait of Thomas Jefferson, who was president when the Louisiana Territory was purchased and commissioned Lewis and Clark’s expedition.
A photograph of a 1905 sculpture of Sacagawea by Alice Cooper located in Portland, Oregon.

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