Jacker's letters are always deeply interesting to Shea; the one he has just received seems two centuries old. With all the boasted progress, Jacker has to wait a month for his mail and get it at Last by a dog train! The books came safely with Jacker's photograph. Jacker's "routier" of Father Henry Nouvel is a surprise to Shea; he hopes Jacker will give an account of his labors. If for him or Father Claude Allouez . Jacker lacks anything that Shea has printed, Jacker should let him know. At Father Joseph M. Finotti's sale, Shea tried to get some of the Indian books, but James Hammond Trumbull was there with unlimited orders from two libraries and the Library of Congress also. A gentleman asked him to buy Bishop Frederic Baraga 's Dictionary, but when Shea had bid up to nearly $20 he stopped. He has ordered Father Albert Lacombe 's reprint; he hopes Lacombe has not altered. Bishop John Ireland made Shea a call and renewed a request made by John Fletcher Williams, Secretary of the Minnesota Historical Society, that Shea work on a translation with notes of Father Louis Hennepin 's "Relation de la Louisiane 1683." Two or three points on which Shea thought Hennepin wrong turn out to be really correct, and the "Nouvelle Découverte 1697," in which the pretended voyage down the Mississippi appears and which has drawn on him a reputation for falsehood and imposture, has, Shea is certain, been tampered with. The book was printed in two different offices. If booksellers were saints in those days, Shea has never read the fact, and certainly those in Holland have not the reputation of being better in those days than ours are now. Shea does not believe a Protestant bookseller in Utreacht would hesitate a bit more than "the sharks who call themselves the Catholic Publication Society " as Finotti expressed it, feel any hesitation in defrauding Shea of compensation for several months of hard labor, or in invading Shea's copyright by reprinting portraits that cost Shea time and money to procure. Father Pamphilo de Magliano, Provincial of the Recollects, used to accuse Shea of injustice to Hennepin. So now he wishes to do Hennepin full justice. Orsamus Holmes Marshall of Buffalo makes Hennepin say Mass in the church at Mackinaw where Father Jacques Marquette lay, and alludes to Jacker's discovery. Shea thinks it was the little chapel near the Ottawa village. Shea hopes to have the book ready for the printer in a month. Has Jacker read Pierre Margry 's volumes? Shea thinks he has another Cayuga, lacking map, which he will send. :: II-2-o A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. 16