Comte de Beaumont de Brivazac reports, 1817-1819

Signed and dated holograph manuscript reports in French by Beaumont de Brivazac concerning French interests in America. Twelve reports written between December 1817 and May 1819, document and analyze the political, diplomatic, and economic affairs of Spain, England, the United States, and France in the former Spanish colonies in the Western Hemisphere, particularly California, Florida, Texas, and Mexico. Three reports written in April, May and December 1818, concern expeditions from English ports to the arctic pole by Captain Buchan and to the Baffin Sea by Captain Ross in search of the Northwest Passage, and the political situation in Canada. The reports are accompanied by typescript and manuscript summaries of the material by unidentified authors