Copie de deux lettres envoiées de la Nouvelle France, au Père Procureur des missions de la Compagnie de Jésus en ces contrées
Contributors: Jesuits
Publisher: Privately reprinted by James Lenox
Published: 1854
Place of publication: New York]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Missions; Indians of North America; Discovery and exploration; Indiens; Discoveries in geography; Jesuits; Jésuites
Other titles: Copie de devx lettres envoiées de la Novvelle France
Notes: Facsim. of: A Paris : Chez Sebastien Cramoisy et Gabriel Cramoisy, 1656.

"Imprimé selon la copie dans la possession de M. Jacques Lenox de New-York, et qui est peut-être unique depuis la destruction de celle qui appartenait à la Bibliotheque du Parlement de Canada"--Colophon.

Most of the Relation for 1655 was destroyed in ms. when its bearer was attacked by robbers on the La Rochelle-Paris highway. A substitute publication was prepared in Paris from the fragments and from two letters of Le Mercier, the Superior at Quebec"--TPL.

Letters signed: François Le Mercier ... October 1655.

Includes bibliographical references (Sabin 39991; TPL 53).