Lot
73 
[Louisiana Purchase] New Orleans 4 May 1792, dateline on Autograph Letter Signed of Baron de Carondelet as Governor of Louisiana to Juan de la Villebeuvre, 2 pp., some folds and few erosion spots, Very Fine. Estimate $300 - 400.
Cover letter written in French to a request from the new inhabitants of New Iberia asking for a league and a half of land that had been granted to Juan Bautista Macarty, the reason for which is obscured, but is attested as a judicially imposed obligation that is to be fulfilled because the general good is to be preferred to an individual's private interests.
Realized: $575