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 1610-1791 
 
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 of these will be the only biographies yet written. This 
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 as trustworthy as modern scholarship will allow. In 
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 Much New The Editor end his staff are accumulating a mass of 
 andVaiuable valuable and important material, which will be pub- 
 lished for the first time in this work ; much of this has 
 been received from those who have made special re- 
 searches in connection with the Jesuit Relations, as 
 they affect the history and archaeology of different lo- 
 calities and States. 
 
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 ceived from distinguished members of the Society of 
 Jesus, both in the United States and in Canada. Par- 
 ticularly helpful has been the cooperation of the Rev. 
 Arthur E. Jones, S. J., the distinguished archivist of St. 
 Mary's College, Montreal, than whom perhaps no better 
 authority in this field of American history now exists ; 
 in his charge are the original MSS. of many of the 
 Jesuit Relations and Letters of the XVII. and XVIII. 
 centuries. 
 
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 Analytical Index to the entire series. 
 
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 modern processes, and will be printed on plate-paper — 
 the maps on special map-paper. 
 
 The Illustrations will comprise : 
 I. Reproductions of the title-pages (with their pe- 
 culiar devices) of the entire original Cramoisy Series of 
 the Relations (printed iu Paris, 1632-72), and of all other 
 original editions whose title-pages are obtainable. 
 
 II. Facsimiles of Original MSS. of Marquette, Le 
 Jeune, De Quen, Jogues, Allouez, Dablon, La Brosse, 
 
 Index, 
 
 Portraits, 
 
 Maps, 
 
 Facsimiles, 
 
 etc. 
 
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 Charlevoix, Potier, Andr^, Gamier, Ragucnau, Coquart, 
 Lalemant, Vaillaut, Viiront, Druilletes, and others. 
 
 III. Portraits of all of those Jesuit missionaries in 
 New France of whom authentic portraits have bc^n 
 preserved. 
 
 IV. Reproductions of all maps contained in the orig- 
 inal edit.'ons, and the addition of several new ones, in- 
 cluding a large general map of New France, showing 
 the location of the Missions, Portages, Tribes, etc., etc. 
 
 V. Other illustrations of interest. 
 
 These Relations give the earliest, and, for the XVII. 
 century, the only authoritative accounts of the many 
 Indian tribes among whom the Jesuit missionaries la- 
 bored—their manners, customs, rites and ceremonies, 
 foods, modes of hunting, etc., etc. The following tribes 
 and families are among the many concerning whom the 
 Relations treat : — 
 
 Abenakis, Alibaraons, Arkansans, Atiwandaronks, 
 Beavers, Berseamites, Cahokias, Cayugas, Cherokees, 
 Chickesaws, Chippewas, Choctaws, Creeks, Crees, Da- 
 kotas, Eries, Foxes, Genesijes, Hurons, Illinois, Iro- 
 quois, Mascoutens, Menominees, Miamis, Micmacs, 
 Mohawks, Montagnais, Neuters, Nipissings, Oneidas, 
 Onondagas, Ottawas, Oumaniweks, Papinachois, Penob- 
 scots, Peorias, Petuns, Porcupines, Pottawattomies, Sacs, 
 Seminoles, Senecas, Sioux, Susquehannas, Tamaroas, 
 Winnebagoes, Wyandots, Yazoos. 
 
 The travels and explorations of the early Jesuit mis- 
 sionaries were principally in the Hudson Bay Country, 
 Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Que- 
 bec ; the present states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ken- 
 tucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, 
 Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New 
 York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Wisconsin ; lakes 
 Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, Superior, Nipissing, St. 
 
 Indian 
 Tribes. 
 
 Pri-. i^ipal 
 States and 
 Localities 
 Explored by 
 the Jesuit 
 Mission- 
 aries. 
 
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 Coil tents of 
 the Series. 
 
 Chronolog- 
 
 John, and Siuicoe; the rivers Mississippi, St. John and 
 St. Lawrence; around Chequamegon Ba>, Georgian 
 Bay, Green Bay, Keweenan Bay, Bay of Quint/?, etc. 
 This publication will embrace: 
 I. The entire series of original Cramoisy Jesuit Re- 
 lations (Paris, 1632-72). 
 The Shea-Cramoisy Series of Reprints. 
 The O'Callaghan Series of Reprints and Fac- 
 .similes. 
 
 r^ Journal desjesuites, public par MM. les Abb^s 
 Laverdi^re et Casgrain (Quebec, 1871). 
 
 All portions of Lettres Edifiuntes et Curieuses, 
 that bear on the French Missions in North 
 America. 
 
 Carayor's P> cmiere Mission desj'sui..j au Cana- 
 da (Paris, 1864). 
 
 Relations Inedites de la Nouvelle-France^ 1672- 
 J679 (2 vols., Paris, 1861). 
 
 Many privately-printed Letters and Relaiions, 
 collected b}- Fathers Martin and Jones, Mr. 
 James Lenox, and others. 
 
 Much hitherto-unpublished Material, from MSS. 
 in the Archives of St. Mary's College, Mont- 
 real, and elsewhere. Also several Relations 
 (such as Bressani's, 1645-49) and other Docu- 
 ments not ordinarily cited in bibliographies 
 of the subject. 
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 P«blk«tion ?^^'^^ ^^"^^' arranged in che chronological order 
 in which they will be issued. 
 
 Some few tinptiblished manuscripts may yet be added. 
 1610. La Conversion des Savvages qui out estd baptizes en la 
 
 Nouvelle-France Paris, Jean Milloi, 1610. 
 1610 Lettre missive tovchant la conversion et baptesme du grand 
 
 Sagamos de la Nouvelle-France. Envoy^e du Port-Royal au Sr. 
 
 de la Tronchaie, 28 juin, i6io. Paris, Jean Regnovl, 1630. 
 
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 I6ii, Biard. Lettre <lu P. Pierre Binnl. Dieppe, ai Janvier, i6tr. 
 1611. niaril. Lellre <lu P. P '-rre niar.l. Port-Royal, 10 juin, 161 1. 
 1611. Masse. LettrcduP. EntiL -lOtuiMaBso. Port-Royal,ioju:u,i6:i. 
 
 1611. Biard. Lettre du P. Pierre Hiard. Port Royal, 1 1 juin, 161 1. 
 1611-13. JuvenciuH. Cunadicie Missionls Relatio, auctore Josepho 
 
 Juvencio. Roma;, 17 10. 
 1611-13. Juvencius. De Regione et Moribus CHiiadensiutn sen lar- 
 barorum Novic Prancia-, auctore Josepho Juveucto. Roniii-, 17 10. 
 
 1612. Biard, Lettre du P. Biard. Port-Royal, 31 Janvier, 1612. 
 i6i2. Biard. Missio Canadensis. Kpistola ex Portu-reguli in Acadia, 
 
 a R. Petro Biardo. Dilingic, i6ti («V). 
 1612. Poutrincourt. Relation deruiOire du Sieur <!e Poutrincourt. 
 
 Paris (1612). 
 1613-14. Rel.itio Rerum Gestarum in Nova-Francica Missione. 
 
 Lugduni, CiD.lDC.XilX. 
 1614. Biurd. Lettre du P. Biard au T. R. P. G^n^ral. Amiens, 6 
 
 tnai, 614. 
 1616. Biard. Relation de la Nouvelle-France par le P. Pierre Biard. 
 
 Lyons, 1616. 
 1625. Lallemaut. Lettre au Sieur de Champlain, de Kebec, 28 
 
 juillet, 1625. 
 
 1625. Lallemant. Lettre a-a R. P. Prouincial, de Kebcc, 28 juillet, 
 1625. 
 
 1626. Lallemant. Lettre au T. P.. P. Mutio Vitellotschi de la 
 Nouvelle-France. i aoftt, 1626. 
 
 1627. Lallemant. Lettre du P. Charles I'Allemant, Sup^rieur de la 
 tnission de Canadas, Paris, 1627. 
 
 1629. Lallemant. Lettre du P. I'Allemant de la Nouvelle-France, 
 22 novembre, 1629. 
 
 1632. Le Jeune. Brieve Relation du Voyage de la Nouvelle-France. 
 Paris, Cramoisvy 1632. 
 
 1633. Le Jeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 
 1634. 
 
 1634. Le Jeune. Lettre de Quebec, 1634. 
 
 1634. Le Jeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France, Paris, Cramoisy, 
 
 1635. 
 
 1635. Le Jeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 
 
 1636. 
 
 1636. Le Jeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 
 
 1637. Br^beuf. Lettre du P. Jean de Br^beuf, de la Residence de 
 baint-Joseph. 20 mai, 1637. 
 
 1637. Le Jeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Rouen, Boiillen- 
 ger, 1638. 
 
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 1638, Br^beuf. I^ettre du P. Jean de Br^beuf, de la Residence de 
 Saint-Joseph, 1638. 
 
 1638. Le Jeune. Relation lie la Nouvclle-France. Paris, Cramoisv 
 1638. ^' 
 
 1639. Peron. Lettre du P. Fransois du Peron au Joseph-Imbert du 
 Peron, son I'r^re. Au bourg de la Conception de Notre-Dame, 
 27 avril, 1639. 
 
 1639. Chaumonot. Lettre du P. Joseph-Marie Chaumonot. Kebec, 
 7 aofit, 1639. 
 
 1639. Le Jeune. Relation de la Nouvelle- France. Paris, Cramaisy, 
 1640. 
 
 1640, Chaumonot. I^ettre du P. J.-M. Chaumonot du paya des 
 Hurons. 24 mai, 1640. 
 
 1640, Chaumonot, I^ettre du P. J.-M. Chaumonot du pays des 
 
 Hurons. 26 mai, 1640. 
 1640. Chaumonot. Lettre du P. J.-M. Ci:<iumonot, de Sainte-Marie 
 
 aux Hurons. 3 aoflt, 1640. 
 
 1640. Vimont. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 
 1641. 
 
 1640-41. Vimont. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 
 1642. 
 
 1641. Br^beuf. Extrait d'une lettre du P. Jean de Br^beuf. Quebec, 
 20 aofit, 1641. 
 
 1642. Vimont. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 
 1643. 
 
 1642-43. Vimont Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoi-iy, 
 1644. 
 
 1643. Jogues. lyettre du P. Isaac Jogues, du village des Iroquois, 
 30 juin, 1643. 
 
 1643. Br^beuf. I^ettre du P. Jean de Br^beuf, des Trois-RiTi^r«8, 
 
 23 septembre, 1643. 
 1643-44. Vimont. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 
 
 1645. 
 1644-45. Vimont. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 
 
 1646. 
 
 1645. I^allemant. Estat du Pays lorsque I'y arriv^, i septembre, 1645. 
 
 1645. Journal des Jdsuites, octobre k d^cembre, 1645. 
 
 1645-46. l<allemant. Relation de la Nouvelle - France. Paris, 
 Cramoisy, 1647. 
 
 1645-49. Bressani. Breve Relatione d'alcune missioni nella NTuova 
 Francia. Marcerata, 1653. 
 
 1646. Jogues. Novum Belgium, par R. P. Isaac Jogues. 
 
 1646. Journal des J^suites, Janvier k d^cembre, 1646. 
 
 1647. Gamier. I^ettre du P. Charles Gamier de Sainte-Marie des 
 Hurons, 3 mai, 1647. 
 
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 1647. Lalletnant. Relation de la Nouvelle-France, sur le Grand 
 Fleuve de St. Laurens, Paris, Cramoisy, 1648. 
 
 1647. Journal des Jdsuites, Janvier k d^cembre, 1647. 
 
 1647-48. Lallemant. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, 
 Cramoisy, 1649. 
 
 1648. jbr^beuf. Lettre du P. Jean Br^beuf, de Sainte-Marie aux 
 Hurons, 2 juiu, 1648. 
 
 1648. Journal des Jdsuites, Janvier a d^cembre, 1648. 
 
 1648-49. Ragueneau. Relation de la Mission aux Hurons. Paris, 
 Cramoisy, 1650. 
 
 1649. Ragueneau. Lettre du P. Paul Ragueneau, de Sainte-Marie 
 aux Hurons, i mars, 1649. 
 
 1649. Buteux. Lettre du P., Jacques Buteux, des Trois-Rivi^res, 21 
 septembre, 1649. 
 
 1649. Journal des J^suites, Janvier k d^cembre, 1649. 
 
 ^649-50. Ragueneau. Relation de la Mission aux Huros et aux 
 pais plus bas de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 165 1. 
 
 1650. Ragueneau. Lettre du P. Paul Ragueneau, de Sainte-Marie 
 «nx Hurons, 13 mars, 1650. 
 
 165a Journal des J^suites, Janvier k d^cembre, 1650. 
 
 '650-51. Ragueneau. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, 
 
 Cramoisy, 1652. 
 1650-51. Dreuillettes. Narrd du Voyage faict pour la Mission 
 
 Abnoquiois et des Connaissances tir^z de la Nouvelle-Angle- 
 
 terre. Paris, 1652. 
 
 1651. Dreuillettes. Epistola Rev, P. Gabrielis Dreuillettes. s.l.eta. 
 1651. Lettre des Associ^s de la Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France, 
 
 an T. R. P. G^n^ral. Paris, juiti, 1651. 
 
 1651. Journal des J^suites, Janvier k ddcembre, 1651. 
 
 1651-52. Ragueneau. Relation de la Nouvelle - France. Paris, 
 Cramoisy, 1653. 
 
 1652. Journal des J^suites, f^vritr k d^cembre, 1652. 
 
 '652-53. Le Mercier. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, 
 
 Cramoisy, 1654. 
 *653' Progressus Fidei Catholicae in Novo Orbe, apud Joannem 
 
 Kinchium. (Such portion as relates to Canada). 
 
 1653. Journal des J^suites, Janvier k ddcembre, 1653. 
 
 1653-54. Le Mercier. Relation de la Nouvelle - France. Paris, 
 Cramoisy, 1655. 
 
 1654. Journal des Jdsuites, Janvier k l"i6vrier, 1654. 
 
 1655. Copie de deux Lettres envoi^es de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, 
 Cramoisy, 1656. 
 
 1655-56. Jean de Quens. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, 
 Crmmoisy, 1657. 
 
 
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 RE-ISSUE AND TRANSLATION 
 
 1655-56. Mort du FrSre I/i^geois. (From Journal des Jdsuites). 
 
 1656. Le Mercier. Journal des J^suites, octobre k d^cembre, 1656. 
 1656-57. Lejeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cru- 
 
 maisy, 1658. 
 
 1657. Journal des J^suites, Janvier k ddcembre, 1657. 
 
 1657-58. Ragueneau. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cru- 
 moisy, 1659. 
 
 1658. Journal des J^suites, Janvier k ddcembre, 1658. 
 
 1659. Fran9oi3 de Laval-Montmorency, ^veque de P^tr^e. I^ettoe 
 au T. R. P. Goswin Nickel. Quebec, aoflt, 1659. 
 
 1659. I<allemant, I^ettres envoides de la Nouvelle-France au Re- 
 nault. Paris, 1660. 
 
 1659. I»allemant Lettres envoi^es de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, 
 Cramoisy, 1660. 
 
 1659. Journal des J^suites, Janvier k d^cembre, 1659. 
 
 1659-60. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramoisy, 1661. 
 
 1660. Journal des J^suites, Janvier k d^cembre, 1660. 
 1660-61. Lejeune. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. 
 
 moisy, 1662. 
 
 1661. Chaumonot. Lettre dt P. J.-M. Chaumonot. 
 octobre, 1661. 
 
 166;. Journal des Jdsuites, Janvier k decembre, 1661. 
 1661-62. Ivallemant. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. 
 moisy, 1663. 
 
 1662. Journal des J^suites, Janvier k ddcembre, 1662. 
 1662-63. Lallemant. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. 
 
 moisy, 1664. 
 
 1663. Relation de la Nouvelle-France, contenant le tremblement de 
 terre dpouuentable, s. I. et a. 
 
 1663. Journal des J^suites, Janvier a ddcembre, 1663. 
 
 1663-64. Lallemant. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- 
 moisy, 1665. 
 
 1664. Histoire Veritable et Natvrelle des Moeurs et Productions du 
 Pays de la Nowelle-France. Paris, Lambert, 1664. 
 
 1664. Journal des J^suites, Janvier k novembre, 1664. 
 
 1664-1665. Le Mercier. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, 
 Cramoisy, 1666. 
 
 1665. Journal des Jesuites, Janvier k decembre, 1665. 
 
 1665-66. Le Mercier. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- 
 moisy, 1667. 
 
 1666. Journal des Jesuites, Janvier & ddcembre, 1666. 
 
 1666-67. Le Mercier. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- 
 moisy, 1668. 
 
 1667. Journal des Jesuites, Janvier k decembre, 1667. 
 
 Paris, Cm- 
 Quebec, 20 
 
 Paris, Cra- 
 
 Paris, Cra- 
 
Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- 
 
 1667-68. Le Mercier. Relatiou de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- 
 
 tnoisy, 1669. 
 1668. Journal des J6suites, Janvier S. juin, 1668. 
 1668-69. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cramotsy. 1670. 
 1669-70. Le Mercier. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- 
 
 tnoisy, 1671. 
 1670-71. Dablon. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. Paris, Cra- 
 
 moisy, 1672. 
 1671-72. Dablon. 
 
 tnoisy, 1673. 
 1672-73. Dablon, Relation de la Nouvelle-France. 
 1673. Nicholas. Memoire pour un Missionaire qui ira aux Sept- 
 Isles, par P. F. Louis Nicholas. MS, 
 1673. Nouvel. Lettre du P. Nouvel, Supdrieur de la Mission des 
 
 Outaonais, ^crite le 29 mai, 1673, de Sainte-Marie-du-Sault. 
 1673. Bruyas. Lettre ^crite de Tionnontoguen par le P. Bruyas, 
 
 Sup^rieur des Missions iroquoises, 12 juin, 1673. 
 
 1673. Lamberville. Lettre ^crite de Tethiroguen par le P. de Lam- 
 berville, 9 septembre, 1673. 
 
 1673-74. Dablon. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. 
 
 1673-75. Marquette. Rdcit des Voyages et des D^couvertes de P. 
 Marquette ; La Continuation de ses Voyages par P. Allouez : 
 et Le Journal Autographe du P. Marquette en 1674-75. 
 
 1673-79. Dablon. Relation de la Nouvelle-France. 
 
 1674. Dalmas. Account (Sept. 24), by P. F. Antoine Dalmas to 
 Claude Dablon, of expedition of observation around Island of 
 Montreal. MS. 
 
 1674. Dablon. Lettre du P. Claude Dablon, Supdrieur des Missions 
 dn Canada, au R. P. Pinette. Quebec, 24 octobre, 1674. 
 
 1675. Dablon. Etat present des Missions en la Nouvelle-France, 
 en 1675. 
 
 1676-77. Relation de la Nouvelle-France, selon MS. original restant 
 
 h I'Uuiversite Laval. 
 1677-78. Lamberville. Relation des ann^es 1677-78, et rdcit des 
 
 Voyages et D^couvertes de Marquette. 
 1684. Bigot. Copie d'une lettre ^crite par P. Jacques Bigot, de la 
 
 Mission de Sainct-Frau9oisde-Sales. 
 
 1684. Bigot. Relation de la Mission Abnaquise de Saint-Joseph- 
 de-Sillery, et de la Nouvelle Mission de Saint-Frangois-de-Sales. 
 
 1685. Bigot. Relation de la Mission Abnaquise de Sainct-Joseph- 
 de-Sillery et de Sainct-Franjois-de-Sales. Juliet, 1685. 
 
 1685. Bigot, Relation de la Nouvelle-France. 8 nov. 1685. MS. 
 
 1686. Chauchetiere. Narrd Annuel de la Mission du Sault depuis 
 la fondation iusqu'^ Tan 1686. MS. 
 
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 1688. Jean de St. Valier (Eveque de Quebec). Relation des Mis- 
 sions dans la Nouvelle France. Paris, 1688. 
 
 1688. Chaumonot. Vie de, 6crite par lui-m^me. 
 
 1688-93. Chaumonot. Suite de la Vie, par uu P^re de la mgmft 
 Compagnie. 
 
 1688-93. Chollenec. Lettre du P. Chollenec au P. Jean-Baptiste du 
 Halde. 
 
 1690-91. Milet. Relation de sa captivity parmi les Onneiouts. 
 
 1693-94. Gravier. Relation de la Mission de I'lmmaculde Concep- 
 ception au Pays des Ilinois, 
 
 1694-95. Marest. I^ettre du P. Gabriel Marest au P. de Lamber- 
 ville. 
 
 1696, Relation des Affaires du Canada, en 1696. 
 
 1696. De la Mission Iroquoise du Sault St, Fransois Xavier, en 1696. 
 
 1696. Gravier. De la Mission Illinoise en 1696. 
 
 1697. Gravier, Lettre du P. Jacques Gravier h. Monseigneur de 
 Ivaval, le 17 septembre, 1697. 
 
 1699. Moutigni, I^ettre de M, de Montigni au Rev. P. Bruyas, 23 
 
 avril, 1699. 
 1699. Marest. Lettre du P. Gabriel Marest 3, un PSre de la Com- 
 
 pagnie, du Pays des Illinois, 29 avril, 1699. 
 1699. Binueteau. Lettre du P. Julien Binneteau, du Pays des lUi- 
 
 nois, 1699. 
 
 1699. Bigot. Lettre du P. Jacques Bigot, du Pays des Abnaquis, 
 1699. 
 
 1700. Marest. Lettre du P. Gabriel Marest, 1700. 
 
 1700. Montigny, St. Cosme, et Thaumur de la Source. Relation de 
 la Mission du Mississipi du S6minaire de Quebec. 
 
 1700. Gravier. Relation du Voyage depuis le pays des Illinois juB- 
 qu'S, I'embouchure du Mississipi. 
 
 1701. Bigot. Relation de la Mission des Abnaquis ^ I'Acadie. 
 
 1702. Chaigneau. Lettre du P. L. Chaigneau au Rev. P. de Lam- 
 berville, en 1702. 
 
 1702. Relation du Destroit, 1702. 
 
 1702. Bigot. Relation de la Mission Abnaquise de Saint-Fran5oi«- 
 
 de-Sales. 
 1708. Gravier. Lettre sur les affaires de la Louisiane, 23 fSvrier, 
 
 1708. 
 1712. Marest. Lettre du P, Gabriel Marest au P, Germon, aus Cas- 
 
 caskias, 9 novembre, 1712. 
 1715. Chollenec. Lettre du P. Chollenec au P. Augustin le Blanc, 
 
 au Sault de St. Louis, 27 aoflt, 1715. 
 1722. Rasles. Lettre du P. S^bastien Rasles, k son neveu, k Nao- 
 
 rantsouak, 15 octobre, 1722. 
 
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 1722. Ivoyard. Sur I'^tat present des AWnaquis, par P. Jean- 
 Baptiste Loyard. MS. 
 
 1723. Rasles. Lettre du P, S^bastien Rasles, fl son frSre, a Na- 
 rantsouak, 12 octobre, 1723. 
 
 1724. La Chasse. Lettre du P. de la Chasse. Quebec, 29 octobre, 
 1724. 
 
 1727. Poisson. Lettre du P. du Poisson au P. Patouillet. 
 
 1727. Poisson. Lettre du P. du Poisson, missionaire aux Akensas, 
 
 3 octobre, 1727. 
 1730. Laure. Mission de Saguenay, 1720-1730, par R. P, Pierre 
 
 Laure, 13 mars, 1730, MS. 
 1730. Le Petit. Lettre du P. le Petit au P. d'Avaugour. A la Nou- 
 
 velle-Orl^ans, 12 juillet, 1730. 
 1730-45- The Aulneau Letters from the original French MSS. re- 
 
 cent'y discovered, and which are now being arranged for this 
 
 work. MS. 
 1745. Avond. LettreduP. Louis Avond. La Rochelle, 24 juin, 1745. 
 
 1749. Catalogus Personarum et Officiorum Missiones Americie Sep- 
 tentrionalis in Nova Francia. MS. 
 
 1750. Vivier. Lettre du P. Vivier, aux Illinois, 8 juin, 1751. 
 1750, Vivier. Lettre du P. Vivier, aux Illinois, 17 novembre, 1750. 
 
 1756. Catalogus Personarum et Officiorum Provinciae Francis So- 
 cictatisj^su. Exeunte anno 1756. Misdones Americae Septen- 
 trionalis in Nova Francia. MS. 
 
 1757. Lettre du P^re Missionaire chez les Abnakis : de Saint-Fran- 
 cois, 21 octobre, 1757. 
 
 1758. Watrin. Letter to the Propaganda, giving account of the 
 expulsion of the Jesuits from the Mississippi Valley. MS. 
 
 1791. Plessis. Letter of Bp. Plessis, referring to sickness of Father 
 Well, the last Jesuit of Montreal. MS. 
 
 This work will, for the first time, place within the 
 reach of students. Documents of the highest Historical 
 Importance, hitherto practically unavailable; and, for 
 \}s\^ first time., a complete translation of the same. The 
 Analytical Index, which is to accompany the series, will 
 be cf the utmost value as an aid in historical research. 
 In consideration of the many new and valuable features 
 embodied, and the superb mechanical execution, we 
 feel that it is a work that will especially appeal to Stu- 
 dents of American History, Public Libraries, Historical 
 Socie.'i . Public Institutions, and Lovers of Fine Books. 
 
 
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 What Historians and Reviewers say of The Jesuit 
 Relations : 
 
 Parkman. "The Relations of the Jesuits appeal equally to the spirit of re- 
 ligion and the spirit of romantic adventure. . . They hold a high 
 place as authentic and trustworthy historical documents. They are 
 very scarce [1867], and no complete collection of them exists in 
 America." 
 Bancroft. "The history of the Jesuit Missions is connected with the origin 
 
 of every celebrated town in the annals of French America. Not a 
 cape was turned, not a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way." 
 
 Charlevoix. "There is no other source to which we can resort to learn the 
 progress of 1 eligioa among the Indians and to know those nations. 
 . . Of the Apostolic labors of the missionaries, they give very edi- 
 fying accounts." — Charlevoix^ in 1743. 
 Shea. " The Jesuits in their Relations give much information as to the 
 
 progress of geographical discovery. The resources and fauna of 
 the country, the Indian nations, their languages, manners and cus- 
 toms — their wars and vicissitudes." 
 Martin. " These Relations are sometimes the only source of the history of 
 
 Q.e,naAd."— Father Felix 'Martin, S.J. 
 Kip. "There is no page of our country's history more touching and 
 
 romantic than that which records the labors and sufferings of the 
 Jesuit Missionaries." 
 Winsor. " That series of w^iderful letters known as the Jesuit Relations. 
 
 Those reports, for forty years or more, supplied the most that was 
 known of life in the Canadian wilds to the great mass of French 
 readers." 
 
 Klingsford. " No modern newspaper correspondent ever made greater efforts 
 
 more favorably to represent the cause he was advertising. The 
 
 whole of the Relations are marked by extraordinary literary ability." 
 
 Field's " These Relations, for many years looked upon through the haze of 
 
 Indian Bib- sectarian distrust, were lightly esteemed by the students of Ameri- 
 
 liography. can history, but the more their character and statements were inves- 
 tigated, the more important and valuable they appeared. They have 
 become the sources from which we must draw almost all the historic 
 material of New York and Canada during the first century and a 
 half of their exploration by Europeans.'" 
 The Nation. "The thirty-nine volumes produced onward from 1632 embody the 
 observations of able and well-trained men, often the first explorers 
 of a terra incognita, and always snappers-up of significant trifles 
 unconsidered by others. A mass of material to serve for the history 
 of the New Dominion in its earliest period was thus accumulated 
 and fastened in a sure place. This treasure has no parallel in any 
 
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 one of our thirteen colonies. Nor has it been paralleled in subse- 
 quent Canadian history. . . . Gleanings from the Relations are 
 early traceable, even in Protestant writers, but the preeminent value 
 of those documents was not plain till within the last half century. It 
 began to dawn on Sparks and Bancroft, and was still more clear to 
 Parkman. Me an time, the editio princeps ( called Cramoisy from the 
 name of the publisher) was either entombed in European libraries, 
 or worn out in the hands of private owners. The series in its en- 
 tirety baffled the endeavors of many collectors, no matter how long 
 their purses. . . . Hitherto, the Relations have remained in the origi- 
 nal Fier.ch, and hence continue to be a sealed book to all students 
 whose linguistics have not carried them further than the novels of 
 Zola. Accordingly, no news can be more welcome to students of 
 history than the prospectus of a Cleveland publisher that he has in a 
 good state of forwardness a complete re-issue of the Jesuit Relations. 
 Here will appear the original French, and, page by page, an English 
 translation by a scholar who has made a lif;i study of the French, 
 and especially the Canadian dialect, of the seventeenth century. 
 This edition of 750 copies will be illustrated by every species of note 
 which may best elucidate the text; it will include Relations of a 
 kindred character not in the Cramoisys ; it will abound in maps for 
 lack of which the journeys described have been obscure ; it will pre- 
 sent portraits of all worthies in the Relations whose lineaments are 
 known, and will be especially rich in facsimiles of their most mem- 
 orable writings. This historic boon fitly comes from Cleveland, 
 midway between the east and west limits of the Jesuits, and under 
 the editorship of Reuben Gold Thwaites, Secretary of the Wisconsin 
 Historical Society, which stands without a peer in the West, and 
 possibly in the East, as a quarry of material for building up the 
 fabric of northwestern yxxsXoxy."— March ig, i8g6. 
 
 " Mr. Reuben Gold Thwaites is an ideal editor for such a work 
 [Withers's 'Chronicles of Border Warfare '] ; a trained student and 
 scholar,— the two words are not synonymous,— he is one of that 
 band of Western historians who, during the last decade, have 
 opened an entirely new field of historical study."— Theodore Roose- 
 velt, in the American Historical Review, vol. i, p. 170. 
 
 " Few historical documents pertaining to Canada and our north- 
 ern frontier are more valued. They comprise letters written from 
 the interior by Jesuit Missionaries among the Indians two and three 
 centuries ago, and, although used by Parkman, Bancroft, and many 
 other writers, have never been translated before. It has remained 
 for the Cleveland firm to undertake to make the work accessi- 
 ble to general readers of English for the first time."— January 22, 
 1896. 
 
 American 
 
 Historical 
 
 Review. 
 
 The 
 
 New York 
 
 Times. 
 
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 TheCatholic "As throwiag more light upon the early history of the settlemeat 
 Record, of Canada than any other publication : we mean the Jesuit Rela- 
 London, tions, from which all the historians who have written on the early 
 Ont. history of Canada have derived most of their information. The 
 
 details of these occurrences are given in the Jesuits' I/Ctters, and 
 much information which cannot be elsewhere found concerning the 
 aborigines, and the French settlement of that early date. The Jes- 
 uit Fathers wrote learnedly and graphically . . . and a correct 
 idea of their adventures, as well as of the condition of New Prance 
 in the early part of the seventeenth century, can only be derived by 
 reading the original. . . One of the learned Jesuits translates and 
 reports a speech made to Governor Champlain by a chief, pronounc- 
 ing it worthy of the schools of Aristotle or Cicero." — Nov. i6, 189s. 
 The " Only for the Jesuit Relations, the letters of the ' black gowns,' 
 
 Buffalo Post we should hardly know what the savage actually was before the 
 Express. white man had idealized him into a creation of the imagination — 
 like Cooper's Indians and that of our early poets as a rule. They 
 soon became an authority — even as early as 168S (the genuine series 
 began in 1632) — when Denonville searched them for proof that 
 France had first right to all the country south of the Ontario, the 
 unofficial record of the Relations supporting him in his lack of doc- 
 umentary evidence." — October 7, 1895. 
 
 The Buffalo " The Jesuit Relations form the source from which all our histori- 
 Courier. ans have taken their account of the region stretching from the 
 mouth of the St. Lawience to the head of i^^ake Superior, as it was 
 in the early years after the discovery of America. Unlike Herod- 
 otus, they did not report for facts what they had merely heard, but 
 proved all things before committing themselves to paper. In these 
 letters, and in those of the Recollects or Franciscans, is found the 
 earliest account of the country of the Neuter Indians through 
 whicn the great river Niagara ^ovtd."— October 20, 1893.