Letter and tracings : Saint-Roch de Québec, to J.C. Pilling, Esq., [Washington, D.C.], 1888 Dec. 28.

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Letter and tracings : Saint-Roch de Québec, to J.C. Pilling, Esq., [Washington, D.C.], 1888 Dec. 28.

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Letter, dated Dec. 28, 1888, from Philéas Gagnon in Saint-Roch, Québec to J.C. Pilling at the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington, D.C., enclosing some tracings from a prayer-book and a primer in Montagnais by Father Jean Baptiste de La Brosse.

[5] leaves ; 35 cm. or smaller.

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