PREFACE. VH 
afforded by the Carter Brown library, perhaps the fluest private col- 
lection of Americana on this continent, I am indebted for many and 
varied favors. 
Through the efforts of Mrs. Enninnie A. Smith, of Jersey City, 1 have 
been able to add the titles of a unmbei of manuscripts retained in the 
archives of the Canadian Catholic Missions which otherwise I would 
have obtained, if at all, with great difficulty. 
My immediate assistants, Mr. P. C. Warman and Miss J. L. McCord, 
are so thoroughly identified with the work in its every stage that I can 
only extend to them, in a general way, my appreciation of the aid they 
have rendered me. • 
Among the owners of private libraries who have done much to assist 
me, I must mention the Eev. Isaac Barefoot, Point Edward, Canada; 
Messrs. W. W. Beach, Yonkers, K T. ; John B. Dunbar, Bloomfield, 
N. J.; Lewis S. Haydeu and J. Edmond Mallet, Washington, D. C; 
Rev. Silas T. Band, Hantsport, Kova Scotia; and the Abb6 Verreau, 
Montreal, Canada. 
Nor must I neglect to add my obligations to the following persons 
throughout the country, upon whose time I have frequently intruded: 
Rev. J. A. Anderson, Waterbury, Conn.; Mr. Marcus Baker, Washing- 
ton, D. C; Rev. Alonzo Barnard, Omena, Mich.; Rev. J. B. Z. Boldnc, 
Quebec, Canada; Mr. John Nicholas Brown, Providence, R. I.; Rev. 
N. V. Burtin, Caughuawaga, Canada; the late Professor Buschmann, 
Berlin, Germany; Mrs. Cyrus Byington, Belpre, Ohio; Rev. J. W. Cook, 
San tee Agency, Nebr. ; Lieut. Heber M. Creel, U. S. A. ; Rev. J. A. Cuoq, 
Montreal, Canada; W. H. Dall, C. C. Darwin, and Eev. J. Owen Dorsey, 
Washington, D. C; Rev. Myron Eells, Skokomish, Wash.; Joseph Elk- 
inton, Philadelphia, Pa.; Rev. Martin Ferrard, Sault au Recollet, Can- 
ada; Mr. Albert S. Gatschet, Washington, D. C; Rev. J. A. Gilfillan, 
White Earth, Minn. ; Rev. J. Giorda, St. Ignatius Mission, Mont. ; Mr. Ho- 
ratio Hale, Clinton, Ontario, Canada; Rev. S. D. Hinman, of the Dakota 
Missions; Dr. W. J. Hoffman, Washington, D. C; Rt. Rev. Edward 
Jacker, Point Saintlgnace, Mich.; Eev. Francis Jacker, Houghton, Mich. ; 
Eev. Leclair, Oka, Canada; A. J. Knowles, Boston, Mass.; Rev. R. M. 
Loughridge, of the Muscogee Mission; Rev. F. X. Marcoux, St. Regis, 
Canada; Prof. Otis T. Mason, Washington, D. C; Chief H. L. Masta, of 
the Abnaquis, Pierreville, Quebec, Canada; Dr. Washington Matthews, 
U. S. A.; Rev. John Menaul, Laguna, N. Mex.; Paul Neuhaus, Wash- 
ington, D. C; M. Alph. Pinart, San Francisco, Cal.; J. W. Powell, Su- 
perintendent of Indian Affairs, Victoria, B. C. ; Revs. A. L. and S. R. 
Riggs, of the Dakota Mission; Prof. Heiurich Rink, Copenhagen, Den- 
mark; Mrs. A. E. W. Robertson and Rev. W. S. Robertson, of the Mus- 
cogee Missions, TuUahassee, Ind. T.; Prof. E. Uricoechea, Brussels, Bel 
gium; Eev. L. Van Gorp, St. Ignatius Mission, Mont.; the late Rev. 
Eugene Vetromile, Oldtown, Me. ; Mr. E. P. Vining, Omaha, Nebr. ; Rev. 
J. P. Williamson, of the Dakota Mission; Rev. E. F. Wil,-;on, Sault Ste. 
Marie, Ontario, Canada; Mrs. Ashur Wright, Versailles, N. Y. 
