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Shea, John Gilmary, Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Father Edward Jacker, Pointe St. Ignace, Michigan, 1880 August 15

 Item
Identifier: CJSH II-2-o

Scope and Contents

Jacker's letter filled Shea with pain at the loss of his outfit and above all the copy of the "Dictionary" with his patient notes of a quarter of a century. Shea printed a Yakama grammar that his old friend George Gibbs fished out of a pond in Washington Territory and which proved to be the work of Bishop Louis Joseph D'Herbomez . They regret Jacker's removal from Pointe St. Ignace. While he moves, Shea is chained in Elizabeth. Shea wishes to print the Register, and to engrave in time the bread iron and vestments. They are not perhaps older than 1750, but Catholic Maryland cannot show as much of the missions of the last century as Jacker can at Mackinac. Jacker is to apply for a copy of Pierre Margry 's Works before they are all gone. Jacker's notes on Father Louis Hennepin are so valuable that Shea will give them in the Appendix. Reverend Edward Duffield Neill is going to attack Shea, and Jacker's testimony comes so directly to the point that one who rewrote Hennepin's first book destroyed its value, that it will add no little weight to Shea's argument. :: II-2-o A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Dates

  • Creation: 1880 August 15

Language of Materials

English.

Repository Details

Part of the University of Notre Dame Archives Repository

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