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Title: Thomas Jefferson Handwritten Document
Date: 1819-05-30
Description: 1 document, May 30, 1819, D. S., transcribing the agreements made to widen a canal and create a reservoir by the Rivanna Company. Original minutes of the Rivanna company were taken by N. H. Lewis and transcribed by Jefferson to this document.

Title: M-002: John Jacob Astor Collection
Description: This collection contains two letters written by the New York fur trade executive John Jacob Astor to Charles Gratiot of St. Louis in July of 1811 and to Anthony Charles Cazenove in July of 1813. Both have been transcribed.

Title: A Live Buffalo Broadside
Date: 1816
Description: This early western exhibition broadside is a very early piece of St. Louis printing. The place and date of the exhibition are filled in in manuscript which states that the exhibition will be held at the stable of "Mr. Samuel Palmer in West Springfield on the 8th day of Inst. February 1816. West Springfield, Missouri, may not exist today but it was once a post-office in Shelby County, and once the site of a buffalo exhibition. The description below the buffalo reads: "This interesting animal was caught about Two Hundred miles above the Lead Mines, on the Missouri River. It is a female; is two years old, and is as large as a common sized Ox.", Possibly printed by Joseph Charless, the first printer west of the Mississippi, who set up shop in St. Louis in 1808.

Title: M-009: General Daniel Bissell Papers
Description: This collection contains 31 hand-written letters bound in a single volume. The correspondence covers the years 1800-1820. Correspondents include Gen. James Wilkinson; Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike; Gov. William Henry Harrison; Henry Dearborn; William Clark; Frederick Bates; Gov. Meriwether Lewis; and Auguste Chouteau
Immediately after the Louisiana Territory was ceded by France to the United States, Gen. Daniel Bissell (1768-1833) was appointed Commandant of the U.S. Military Department of Missouri. He built, by government order, the contanment at Bellefontaine, just north of St. Louis. As Commandant, Bissell officially welcomed the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to St. Louis. After his military career ended, Bissell retired to a large tract of land on the Bellefontaine Road near St. Louis.

Title: Fourth Report of the Directors of the American Society for Educating Pious Youth for the Gospel Ministry
Date: 1819-09-29

Title: M-111, Series 1: Baptist Pamphlet Collection
Description: Historically, the Mercantile Library had several bound volumes of "Baptist Pamphlets" which were initially part of John Mason Peck's library but catalogued together under one call number. These volumes have been disbound and each pamphlet put in a separate, non-acidic enclosure. A number has been added to an alphabetical arrangement. The list is roughly arranged alphabetically by the first important word of the Church, benevolent Society, or other organization's title or name concerned.

Title: An Inaugural Dissertation; Being A Conjectural Inquiry Into the Relative Influence of the Mind and Stomach
Date: 1815-05-02
Description: Submitted to the Public Examination of the Trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the State of New York, Samuel Bard, M.D., President, for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine

Title: The Theatre
Date: 1819
Description: Journal of drama and literature. Vol. 1, No. 1. February 20, 1819.

Title: Third Report of the Directors of the American Society for Educating Pious Youth for the Gospel Ministry
Date: 1818-09-30

Title: Constitution of the American Bible Society
Date: 1816-05

Title: The Fatal Effects of Ardent Spirits
Date: 1811
Description: A Sermon by Ebenezer Porter, Pastor of the First Church in Washington, Con.

Title: Letter from John Jacob Astor to Anthony Charles Cazenove, July 11, 1813
Date: 1813-07-11
Description: Letter from the New York businessman John Jacob Astor to Anthony Charles Cazenove in Alexandria, Virginia in July of 1813. Astor writes to ask Cazenove to procure him 15 to 20,000lbs. of some commodity.

Title: History of the Northern War; Commencing in 1812, To The Congress At Vinna In 1815
Date: 1815
Description: An Account Of The City Of Moscow, A Description Of The Cossacks, And A Variety Of Anecdotes Of The Emperors And Generals Connected With The History

Title: June 11, 1819 Letter
Date: 1819-06-11
Description: This letter describes Clark's efforts to outfit the Atkinson Expedition to the Yellowstone River. The letter also discusses the City of Saint Louis, where Lt. Clark was staying at the time.

Title: P-064 Yellowstone Expedition Letters
Date: 1819-06-11
Description: This pair of autograph letters are from Lieutenant Isaac Clark to his Father, Colonel Isaac Clark of Vermont, describing his efforts to outfit the Atkinson Expedition to the Yellowstone River. Letters also discuss the City of Saint Louis, where Lt. Clark was staying at the time. The Yellowstone Expedition detailed in these letters is a little-known but significant early western expedition. It was organized in 18191 and was under the command of Col. (later Brigadier General) Henry Atkinson. The group was charged with ascending the Missouri River by steamboat (an early attempt at such travel on the Missouri) to establish a series of forts along the river to protect the American fur trade, guard against hostile Indians, and counteract the presence of the British Hudson’s Bay Company in the region. The expedition ultimately reached the “Council Bluff” in eastern Nebraska, where they established Fort Atkinson, near the Missouri River. The troops at Fort Atkinson endured a harsh winter in 1819-1820, and lack of provisions left them susceptible to scurvy and other diseases, which ultimately claimed between 100 and 200 lives. Clark’s letters give a rare firsthand account of the logistics and provisions of the expedition. Both letters are written by Lieut. Clark, to his father, Col. Isaac Clark in Castleton, Vermont. Isaac Clark, Sr. (1742-1822) had a military career that spanned some fifty years. He fought in the Revolutionary War, participating in the Battle of Bennington (1777) and the recapture of Fort Ticonderoga (1778). During the War of 1812 he led Vermont troops in patrolling the border with Quebec to prevent smuggling and led several military forays into Quebec. He also served in several political and judicial positions in Vermont.

Title: A View of the Lead Mines of Missouri
Date: 1819
Description: 1819 study of the natural history of the Missouri and Arkansas Territories and the resources to be found there.

Title: Bissell Mss.
Date: 1856
Description: This book contains 31 hand-written letters bound in a single volume. The correspondence covers the years 1800-1820. Correspondents include Gen. James Wilkinson; Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike; Gov. William Henry Harrison; Henry Dearborn; William Clark; Frederick Bates; Gov. Meriwether Lewis; and Auguste Chouteau

Title: Discourse on Fever; Delivered Before the Massachusetts Medical Society
Date: 1818-06
Description: At Their Annual Meeting, At Their Request

Title: Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811
Date: 1817
Description: Including A Description of Upper Louisiana, Together With the States of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, With the Illinois and Western Territories, And Containing Remarks And Observations Useful to Persons Emigrating to Those Countries

Title: Letter from John Jacob Astor to Charles Gratiot, July 24, 1811
Date: 1811-07-24
Description: Letter from the fur trading businessman John Jacob Astor to Charles Gratiot of St. Louis in July of 1811 about the Astoria expedition led from St. Louis to the Pacific Coast under the leadership of Wilson Price Hunt. Astor asked if Gratiot had any information about Hunt's party.

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