Indianapolis IN: Indiana Historical Society. Very Good with no dust jacket; Light soiling to covers and edges of text block, spine slightly darkened. Light bumps to head and fore edge of front cover. Wrinkles to spine ends: casing defects. Ding above tail edge and light wrinkles to back cover. 1963. First Edition (?). Softcover. Letters between two learned, educated, ambitious Swiss emigrants to the United States. They jointly pursued farming, utopian communities, a glassworks, and a gun factory. Ultimately, Gallatin served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, as a United States senator, and as Secretary of the Treasury from 1801 to 1813. Badollet served as registrar of the land office for the newly-formed Indiana Territory, was co-author of the first Indiana Constitution, advocate of democracy, opponent of slavery, and ultimately the enemy of Indiana Governor William Henry Harrison who was advocating involuntary servitude in opposition to the Northwest Ordinance. Edited by Gayle Thornbrough, this is thirty-two years of revealing correspondence between the two learned, Jeffersonian democrats. Appendix is the text of Badollet's petition to the General Assembly of the Territory of Indiana in opposition to slavery and involuntary servitude. Extensively indexed. Black and white portraits of both men. Illustrations of Badollet's house in close proximity of Governer Harrison's. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 262 pages .