No. 512.

[182] These papers are in the possession of the Minnesota Historical
Society. The dates covered in these diaries are from December, 1830, to
June, 1831; May 25 to September 21, 1833; May 23 to August 28, 1834.

[183] These letters are in the possession of the Minnesota Historical
Society. In Volume I of these letters is the following notice: "These
326 letters, are part of the great mass of correspondence received by
Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro, Indian Agent at Fort Snelling, 1819-1840. They
constitute but a small part of his accumulations in twenty years. The
rest were burned in his house at Bedford, Pa., in 18__. It was a great
loss to us, as, had they been spared, we would have received all of
them. But even these 326 contain a large amount of valuable material for
Minnesota history. Even as autographs they are valuable, [see
autobiography of Taliaferro, Vol. 6, Coll.] These letters were given by
Maj. T. in March, 1868. Arranged, bound and indexed (by J. F. W.) 1891."

[184] Photostatic copies of many of these letters were taken and are to
be found in the library of the Wisconsin Historical Society, where they
were consulted.

[185] These letter books are now in the possession of the Kansas State
Historical Society at Topeka, where they were consulted. The only volume
containing letters from Major Taliaferro is referred to as the _William
Clark Papers, Correspondence, 1830-1832_.

[186] _Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota
Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 253.

[187] Powell's _List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from
1779 to 1900_, p. 620. In the _Taliaferro Letters_ are many letters from
William Clark and Elbert Herring in which they address Mr. Taliaferro as
"major".

[188] _Taliaferro Letters_, Vol. I, No. 11. A note on this letter gives
these dates.

[189] Nowhere is the date of his arrival at Fort Snelling given. In his
autobiography he writes of his journey: "Jean Baptiste Faribault and
family, had gone through by land, in charge of Colonel Leavenworth's
horses and cows".--_Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 198.
It was in the spring of 1820 that Faribault performed this
service.--_Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 103.

[190] Clark to the Secretary of War, August 20, 1832.--_Indian Office
Files_, 1832, No. 285. For his resignation see _Indian Office Files_,
1824, No. 39.

[191] _Taliaferro's Diary_, March 24, 1831.

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