Note V'-1 — Chapter V · CORRESPONDENCE.[V'-1]
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The Appendix to Pt. 3 of the orig. ed. was the most extraordinary hotch-potch I ever saw in type—a lot of letters and other papers bundled together in no intelligible or imaginable order. There being no evidence of design or purpose, the first step toward bringing an appearance of order out of this confusion must be taken by disregarding the original helter-skelter entirely, and by rearranging the various pieces of which this Appendix consisted as freely as if they were loose manuscripts accidentally disordered. The documents with which we have to do were disarranged as follows:
No. 1. Pike's Observations on New Spain, the leading article, not numbered, making pp. 1-51, or more than half of the whole Appendix. (This I have disposed of in the foregoing Chap. IV.)
No. 2, pp. 52, 53. A fragmentary vocabulary of Mississippi place-names, having no connection with Pt. 3 of the book. (This I have made Chap. IX., pp. 355, 356, of Pt. 1, where it belongs.)
No. 3, pp. 53-55. A letter from Pike to Wilkinson.
No. 4, pp. 55-57. A letter from Wilkinson to Pike.
No. 5, pp. 57-63. A letter from Pike to Wilkinson.
No. 6, pp. 64-68. A Congressional report, with accompanying documents, including matter relating to all three of Pike's expeditions, yet lacking one of the most important of the papers belonging to it (see No. 13, below). (All these I shall relegate to the following Chap. VI.)
No. 7, p. 69. A mere paragraph about a priest. (This I have simply interpolated in the text of the itinerary, Chap. II., pp. 603, 604—the place where it belongs.)
No. 8, pp. 69, 70. A letter from Pike to Allencaster.
No. 9, p. 70. A certificate from Allencaster to Pike.
No. 10, p. 71. A letter from Pike to Allencaster.
No. 11, p. 72. A letter from Pike to Salcedo.
No. 12, p. 72. A letter from Salcedo to Pike.
No. 13, pp. 73-77. The missing document which belongs to No. 6 (see above), being a brief sketch of Pike's Arkansaw Expedition and of his Mexican Tour, no date, no place, no addressee. (This, of course, goes with No. 6, in the following Chap. VI.)
No. 14, pp. 78, 79. A letter from Pike to Salcedo.
No. 15, pp. 79, 80. A letter from Salcedo to Pike.
No. 16, pp. 80-82. Inventory of papers seized by the Spanish authorities, with accompanying certificate.
No. 17, pp. 82, 83. A letter from Pike to Salcedo.
No. 18, pp. 83-85. A letter from Pike to Salcedo.
No. 19, pp. 86, 87. A letter from Salcedo to Wilkinson.
By eliminating from the above No. 1, No. 2, No. 6, No. 7, and No. 13, as above indicated, the residuum consists entirely of correspondence relating to the Mexican Tour, which is easily rearranged in the chronological order of the several letters, and thus forms the present Chapter V.