| Summary: | The letters discuss operations of the French colony at Mobile; missionaries and local Native American tribes (including the Chickasaw, the Apalachee, the Acansa, the Ouma, the Theloel, and the Bayogoula); the delivery of merchandise from Vera Cruz to Mobile; exploration of the Alabama River; and travel on the frigate "Renommee." Among the prominant correspondents are Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Nicolas de La Salle, Jean-Baptiste-Martin D'Artaguiette d'Iron, Antoine Le Moyne de Chateaugue, the Canadien soldier Pierre Dugue de Boisbriand, Jesuit priest Father Jacques Gravier, and Jesuit priest Father de Lamberville. Most of the men wrote from Fort Mobile (also referred to as Fort Louis of Louisiana or Fort Louis of Mobile), though some sent their letters from the port of Massacre (Dauphin) Island (also referred to as Port Dauphine of Louisiana). (The original documents were housed at the Archives Nationales and the Archive de Ministre des Colonies in France.)
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