account of them to these people, who are my allies. I have frightened them by the pains of Hell; I have comforted them with the delights which Christians enjoy in Heaven. I have made them pray to God; they have declared to me their strong desire to be instructed. Baptize me then, O my Father; we will go to see them next Summer, [154] both together." There was no need of declining to accept so good a heart.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA: VOL. XXXV

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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. 466– 469; 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 66 was Fait à Blois ce huictiéme DeThe first and second editions of this Relation are generally referred to as "H. 95" and

cembre 1650."

"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 "Permission" on the verso, I leaf. Page 63 is misnumbered 65, and p. 178 is by transposition misprinted 187. Signatures: & 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. | jusques à l'Esté 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.

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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 "Permifsion 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.

The Copies

The second edition is more uncommon. Brinley copy, sold in 1879, no. 139, for $55. 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).