Serre to John Badollet, September 8, 1782
| Description: |
This letter opens with Serre scolding Badollet for not responding to his and Gallatin’s previous letters. He goes on to update Badollet on their lives—they have settled in Cambridge for the time being and have found work teaching French—and proposes a business idea for Badollet. Serre says he and Gallatin spent some time with a Native American tribe, eating and sleeping among them and attending their dances and ceremonies, and Serre thinks Badollet could make a profit organizing similar excursions for others. He also lets Badollet know that he and Gallatin will be in Cambridge through spring, when they will be heading South, and Badollet is welcome to join them if he still enjoys adventuring. The last thing Serre mentions is reading something in the newspapers about an occupation of 18,000 French and Swiss soldiers—the letter is vague, but Geneva was undergoing a revolution at the time the letter was written, so it is assumed that that was the cause and place of the occupation. |
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| Origin: | 1782-09-08 |
| Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll35/id/91 |
| Collection: |
Vincennes University Archives |
| Copyright: |
Digital image © 2015 Vincennes University. All rights reserved. |
| Geography: |
United States -- Indiana -- Knox County -- Vincennes -- September 8, 1782 |
| Subjects: |
Badollet, John, 1757-1837 -- Correspondence French language -- Study and teaching Indians of North America Switzerland -- Politics and government --1648-1789 |
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