EARLY CANADIAN HISTORY. 



To the Editor of Canada. 



Benton, New Brunswick. 

 Dear Sir, 



I have pleasure in tendering the following for publica- 

 tion. It is the English version of a dry-as-dust docu- 

 ment which an esteemed friend, now deceased, the 

 late Henri Duchesnay, Esq., M. P., for Beauce county, 

 P. Q., allowed me to transcribe from the voluminous 

 French correspondence inherited by him from his sturdy 

 ancestors, the Duchesnays, seigniors of Beauport, oppo- 

 site Quebec. 



Among the old noblesse of primitive Canada, few 

 rank higher than the warlike Juchereau Duchesnays — 

 now represented, at Quebec, by the athletic and worthy 

 Brigade-Major and Deputy-Adjutant General, Lt.-Col. 

 Theodore Duchesnay, and the numerous and highly 

 respected clan of the Taschereau, of Beauce, P. Q., 

 from which sprang our present archbishop, Cardinal 

 Taschereau. 



J. M. L. 



Quebec, December, 1891. 



[Translation.'] 



A GUSHING LETTER FROM A FRENCH SCHOOL GIRL. 



Quebec, 1759. 



Eeine Marie Duchesnay to Hermine Taschereau. 



My Dear Mine. — You doubtless are wondering why 

 I did not write sooner to you. I have enjoyed my 

 holidays very much, though not exactly as Mere St. 



