BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA: VOL. XXXV

LXXII

This is a Latin letter written by Paul Ragueneau to the father general (Caraffa), dated in the Huron country, March 13, 1650. The original rests in the domestic archives of the Society. Here, it was copied (probably in 1858) by Father Felix Martin; his apograph is in the archives of St. Mary's College, Montreal. His French translation appeared six years later in Carayon's Première Mission, pp. 247-253. The Latin text appears for the first time in Rochemonteix's Jésuites et la Nouvelle-France, t. ii., pp. 466469; this we follow, in our reprint.

LXXIII

For bibliographical particulars of the Journal des Jésuites, see Vol. XXVII.

LXXIV

In reprinting the Relation of 1649–50 (Paris, 1651), we follow the text of the first edition, but add the letter of Marie de St. Bonaventure, mother superior, from pp. 178 and 179 of the second edition-the edition in which it first appeared. The "Privilege" is dated at " Paris le 19. Decembre 1650," and the "Permission was Fait à Blois ce huictiéme Decembre 1650." The first and second editions of this Relation are generally referred to as "H. 95" and

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"H. 96," respectively, because they are described in Harrisse's Notes, nos. 95 and 96.

Collation of first edition (H. 95): Title, with verso blank, I leaf; "Table des Chapitres," pp. (2); prefatory epistle from Paul Ragueneau to the provincial, Claude de Lingendes, pp. 1-3; Ragueneau's Relation (13 chaps.), pp. 4-171; "Lettre dv P. Hierosme Lallemant, au R. P. Claude de Lingendes," pp. 172178; "Priuilege," with "Permifsion" on the verso, I leaf. Page 63 is misnumbered 65, and p. 178 is by transposition misprinted 187. Signatures: a in two, A-Lin eights, and M in four, the last two leaves being blank.

The second edition is an entire reset. It varies not only in typographical arrangement, but has also head-ornaments which differ from those of the first edition. The tail-piece of a basket with fruit, which appears on p. 171 of the first, is lacking in the second edition.

The title and collation of the second edition (H. 96) are as follows:

Relation de ce | qvi s'est passé | en la Miffion des Peres de la Com- | pagnie de Iesvs, aux Hurons, & aux | païs plus bas de la Nouuelle Fran- | ce, depuis l'Efté de l'année 1649. | jufques à l'Efté de l'année 1650. | Enuoyée av R. P. Clavde de Lingendes | Prouincial de la Compagnie de Iesvs, | en la Prouince de France. | Par le R. P. Pavl Ragveneav, Superieur | des Miffions de la Compagnie de Iesvs | en la Nouuelle France. | [Printer's ornament]|

A Paris, | Chez | Sebastien Cramoisy, | Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, | & de la Reyne Regente. | Et | Gabriel Cramoisy, | ruë fainct | Iacques, | aux Cico- gnes. | M. DC. LI. | Avec Privilege dv Roy.

Collation: Title, with verso blank, I leaf; "Table des Chapitres," pp. (2); Ragueneau's prefatory letter, pp. 1-3; Ragueneau's Relation (13 chaps.), pp. 4-171; Jerome Lalemant's letter, pp. 172–177; "Lettre de la R. M. | Superieure de l'Hospital de la Mifericorde de Kebec en la Nouuelle France, à Mon- fieur N. Bourgeois de Paris." on pp. 178 and 179, with the "Priuilege" and "Permission" on the verso of the latter page. There is no mispaging. Signatures: Two preliminary leaves without signature mark, A-L in eights, and M in four, the last two leaves being blank. Sheet two of sig. K is incorrectly designated as Iij.

Copies of the first edition have been sold or priced as follows: Squier sale (1876), no. 1964, sold for $10.75; Harrassowitz (1882), priced at 250 marks; Barlow (1890), no. 1299, sold for $5; Dufossé (1891, 1892, and 1896), priced at 225, 175, and 300 francs, respectively.

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The second edition is more uncommon. Brinley copy, sold in 1879, no. 139, for $55. Copies of one or both editions are in the following libraries: Lenox (both); Harvard (first); Brown (first); Ayer (first); Library of Parliament, Ottawa (first); Public Library of Toronto (first); Laval University, Quebec (both); British Museum (first); and Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (both).

NOTES TO VOL. XXXV

(Figures in parentheses, following number of note, refer to pages of English text.)

1 (p. 21). For sketch of Garnier, see vol. viii., note 52; of Chabanel, vol. xxiii., note 14. Cf. accounts of these Fathers given in Relation of 1650, chaps. iii.-iv., in present volume.

2 (p. 31).—Guillaume Vignar (Vignal), arrived in Canada in September, 1648, as chaplain of the Ursuline convent. In 1658, he went to Montreal, where he died, Oct. 27, 1661, as a prisoner in the hands of the Iroquois.

For sketch of Jeanne Mance, see vol. xxii., note 7.

3 (p. 33).—This was Anne Gagnier (Gasnier), widow of Jean du Clement du Vault, seigneur de Monceaux; she was born in 1614. She obtained from the Hundred Associates (Mar. 29, 1649) a concession, the seigniory of Rivière Jacques Cartier. The year from September, 1650, to September, 1651, she spent in a visit to France, and on August 21, 1655, married Jean Bourdon (vol. xi., note 11), then a widower; he died in January, 1668, and she in June, 1698.

4 (p. 41).- Fontarabie: the nickname of a soldier, Pierre Legros; he was killed by the Iroquois, May 10, 1652, with Father Jacques Buteux (vol. vi., note 5).

5 (p. 41).— Martin Grouvel (Gravel), married, at Quebec (Nov. 20, 1635), Marguerite Auber (Aubert); he was captain of a vessel engaged in the Tadoussac trade. The date of his death is not known, but it must have been previous to September, 1661, since at that time the second marriage of his widow is recorded.

6 (p. 43).—Champlain river, in the county of the same name, falls into the St. Lawrence at the village of Champlain.

"The good Charles was a Christian Indian of Sillery, Charles Kariskatisitch, mentioned in Relation of 1649-50, chap. x. (pp. 229, 233 of this volume).

7 (p. 47). For sketch of Charles le Gardeur de Tilly, see vol. xxvii., note 5. In 1648-49, he is mentioned as governor of Three Rivers; and he was twice sent to Paris as one of the deputies of the habitants to secure concessions from the home government.