[42] Livingston to Madison, April 13, 1803; State Papers, ii. 552.

[43] Monroe to Madison, April 19, 1803; State Department Archives.

[44] Madison to Livingston and Monroe, March 2, 1803; State Papers, ii. 540.

[45] Livingston to Madison, May 3, 1804; View of the Claims, etc., by a Citizen of Baltimore, p. 75.

[46] View of the Claims, etc., by a Citizen of Baltimore. 1829.

[47] Livingston to Madison, Nov. 15, 1803; State Papers, ii. 573. Diary of John Quincy Adams, v. 433. Memoir of James Monroe, 1828.

[48] Marbois’s Louisiana, pp. 311, 312.

[49] Marbois’s Louisiana, p. 276.

[50] Talleyrand to Decrès, 4 Prairial, An xi. (May 24, 1803); Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.

[51] D’Azara to Talleyrand, June 6, 1803; Archives des Aff. Étr., MSS.