Notes on the two Jesuit manuscripts belonging to the estate of the late Hon. John Neilson, of Quebec, Canada
By: by l'Abbe Sasseville, F.R.S.C., and Dr. John Gilmary Shea. Ed. by Geo. M. Fairchild, jr.
Contributors: Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892.; Fairchild, G. M. 1854-1912, ed.; Neilson, John, d. 1848.; Neilson, J. L. Hubert b. 1845.; Neilson, John, d. 1848.
Publisher: Priv. print. [by L. Bossue]
Published: 1887
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Manuscripts -- Canada; Manuscripts -- Illinois; Manuscripts, Montagnais
Notes: "100 copies only issued."
The first manuscripts, Père Marquette's Illinois prayer book by Allouez, is now owned by J. L. H. Neilson; a facsimile of the manuscript was published in 1908 by the Quebec literary and historical society. The second manuscript, a Montagnais dictionary by Antoine Silvy, was, according to Sasseville, in the possession of John Neilson of Ste. Foye, son of Hon. John Neilson, when the present work was issued.