J.N. Nicollet papers
Contributors: Clark, William, 1770-1838; Chardon, Francis A., d. 1848; Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809; Loisel, Regis; Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813
Language: fre
Number of pages: 1500
Subjects: Correspondence; Geography; Meteorology; Astronomy; Discovery and exploration
Description: Correspondence, astronomical observations, geographical and meteorological data, expedition diaries, reports, research material, notes, maps, and other papers relating to Nicollet's explorations of the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers.  Documents his exploration of Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.  Includes Francis A. Chardon's journals from Fort Clark, N.D.; Regis Loisel's account of the upper Missouri River; and excerpts from the diaries of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Zebulon Montgomery Pike.  Correspondents include Jacob Whitman Bailey, Edmund M. Blunt, Simon William Gabriel Bruté de Rémur, Jean-Louis-Anne-Madeleine Lefebvre de Cheverus, Pierce Connelly, Louis Régis Deluol, John England, David W. Gobel, J.D. Graham, F.R. Hassler, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Charles T. Jackson, Elias Loomis, Alfred Mordecai, Rush Nutt, Joseph Plympton, Michael Portier, Joseph Rosati, H.H. Sherwood, Gerard Troost, and Sears Cook Walker.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of the Chardon journals available, 16,983.

Microfilm produced from originals in Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977.

Gift, transfer, and purchase, 1921-1956.

Mathematician, explorer, and cartographer.

In French and English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009278