Discusses family news. Assures his mother that he is safe 'among a people of strange speech.' Two-thirds of the people are Americans, and he finds the French very friendly. Describes the land and his duties as commander of the Upper Louisiana. Title: Letter signed Amos Stoddard, St. Louis, (Upper Louisiana), to his mother Phebe Benham, Middlebury, June 16, 1804 . 16 June 1804. Stoddard, Amos, 1762-1813

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