Du Poisson - Voyage Up the Mississippi River in 1727

Du Poisson, Paul. “Voyage up the Mississippi. 1727.” Letter VIII (pp. 229-253) in The Early Jesuit Missions in North America. Compiled and translated from the letters of the French Jesuits, with notes. Rev. William Ingraham Kip. Part 1. New York: John Wiley, 1848. (Scanned document appears to be a typewritten version of the original translation.) ; Core Family Papers (MC 1380, Box 25, File 2)

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