text: The letters also contain several English words, such as "improvise", not otherwise recorded before the 1830s in English, but from French improvisation used from 1786 New Orleans area and "stampede" Spanish, "an uproar," from estamper "1823 (intransitive); Beale's "stampeding" apparently first appears in print in the English Language in 1832, in Etiquette, the American Code of Manners, but were used from 1786-1823 in New Orleans in French and Spanish.