Note 103 — Chapter I · (continued 2)
Reading edition
[On these books see Vol. IV. pp. 294, 316, where Dr. Shea gives reasons for supposing the earliest publication of the Lettres to have been in 1702. Cf. Sabin’s American Bibliopolist (1871), p. 3; H. H. Bancroft’s Mexico, ii. 191; and the Nouvelles des missions, extraites des lettres édifiantes et curieuses: Missions de l’Amérique, 1702-1743 (Paris, 1827).—Ed.]