| LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781, saying “As Caroline/"TeaSH" has said, working on this letter has been a "very interesting exercise" for me, too.
Ethan/"LIFrancophone" (who is not certain of the significance of some short horizontal lines which I have seen in both left and right margins...” | Note Added | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781, saying “I am about to designate my review of the transcription of Page 3 as "Done" -- and ready for someone else to review.
Ethan/"LIFrancophone".” | Note Added | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781, saying “In the final line of text here, "de toute" seems to me to be written as "detoute" -- but I'm not certain of this (and the words should be understood as "de toute").” | Note Added | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781, saying “In line 13 of the transcription, I am uncertain whether to read "d'echange" or "déchange".” | Note Added | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781, saying “"Massure" in line 12 of the transcription would normally be written as "m'assure" in modern standard French (but I see "Massure" in the scan).” | Note Added | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781, saying “In the line of text designated "10" in the transcription, I'm not certain whether the writer wrote "Je n'ai" (as would be normal in standard French), or (connected) as "Jen'ai".” | Note Added | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781, saying “I am now transcribing long "s"-es which "dip" below other letters as "s" -- and only transcribing their counterparts which only extend *above* other letters as "S"-es.
Ethan/"LIFrancophone".” | Note Added | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781, saying “PS concerning the descendants of Simon Nathan: probably the 2 most-generally-well-known among them mentioned in the Encyclopaedia Judaica article which I have cited are Emma Lazarus (who wrote the poem "The New Colossus" associated with the Statue...” | Note Added | |
| LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781, saying “In the line designated as "7" in the transcription, I am not certain whether the words "de voter" were written connected or not (albeit they were probably meant to be *read* as separate words).” | Note Added | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781, saying “You are welcome, Caroline, to my help.
I am *not* volunteering to try to add (either within the transcription space or in Notes) an attempt to figure out how to express in modern standard French what JMP Legras meant in his letter (not least beca...” | Note Added | |
| LIFrancophone edited 4 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 4 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 4 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 4 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 4 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781, saying “I think I will be doing some review of Image 3 (and try to get straight in my own mind which initial and mid-word long "s" letters to transcribe as "S" -- and which as "s" (Sorry) ) -- and I do *not* expect to be finished reviewing Image 3's trans...” | Note Added | |
| LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781, saying “Thanks, Caroline/"TeaSH".
(From my (New York City-area) point of view, the story of J.-M. P. Legras, Simon Nathan, George Rogers Clark, John Todd, and the successful campaign to wrest control of the "Illinois country" from British forces, the pol...” | Note Added | |
| LIFrancophone edited 4 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 4 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone added a note to 4 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781, saying “There is some fading of the ink in Monsieur Le Gras's closing -- but I believe his (conventional) self-deprecating description of himself to his addressee Thomas Jefferson (echoing usage in English of the time) could be translated as "Your very hu...” | Note Added | |
| LIFrancophone added a note to 4 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781, saying “Thanks, "TeaSH", for your work on this page/scan -- and for your note (which I only just noticed today -- 6/16/25).” | Note Added | |
| LIFrancophone edited 4 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 4 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 4 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 4 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
| LIFrancophone edited 4 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in Governors' Letters Received, 1781 | Page Edited | |
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