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Show .rUonticc1lo, .Jlu"nst 18, 181 ~ . S1u., l N complia.uPe with the rrqurst convcyrd in JOllt' Jetter of l\lay ':lo. I have rndt•nyour•('(l to obtain. fl·om the relations anrl lHcnds of the latt" govrt·not· Lrwis, inf'o•·n1 ation of "i U(:b incid<'nts of his lil'e as might be not mnu•(•.t•pt ahll' to 1 hose ,,·ho may l'ead tl•«> nat·t·ative of his WC' st<' l'll cli ~eovel'i cs. The ot·dinary oce m·J'<'n(•c· ~; of a pri vate lift·. and thosf' al so '' hile arfinr.; in a suhtn·tlinatc sphere in the at'lll)' , in a time of prace. at•c not dccmrd sufficiently intct'l'S( ing t.o occupy the public attrntion; but a ~rnet·al account of' his p;u·cutage, with such smaller ineidrnts as markc·d his eat·ly chm·at'fcr ar<' briefly not<.'d~ aml to thesf' at·r addrd. as being JWeuli:u·ly ,,·ithin my own kn(ndcdgr, whatc\'tn• l'ela.ted to the public missiou. of whieh an ac<·o•mt is now to he publishc(l. The result of my inqu:•·i<':oi and recollections shall now be olfc•·cd, to hf' enlal'getl ot· al)J'idgt•d as you may think brst; or otber wisr t.o be ustd with the materials you may lmvr collected from othet· sour·ees. Meriwether L<'wi .. , late govel'nor of Louisiana, was born on the eighteenth of August, 1774, neal' the t0\\11 ol'Cbarlottesvillc, in the county of Albermu·le, in Virginia, of one of the distinguished families of that state. John Lewi~, one |