932 Memoires et Documents 
25 (1637-1681) 
1661, Aug. 22. D'Estrades to Louis XIV, mention of 
memoir of d'Estrades on Acadia (f . 13) . 
[This volume, and volume 27 following, duplicate in 
large part contemporary volumes of the correspondance 
politique . They contain copies of correspondence concerning 
the embassy of d'Estrades in England.] 
24 (1660-1756) 
1660, Sept. 23. French act to encourage and augment 
trade and navigation; prohibition of foreign trade with 
French colonies; duties on foreign whale oil imports; trade 
of France with American colonies (ff . 7-13) . 
1707, Jan., [n.s.]. Memoir on projected expedition 
for provisioning and protection of French islands in America 
(ff . 21-23) . 
[1734?], [n.s.]. Memoir on British navy of 1734; 
naval control of America; prizes (ff . 136-194) . 
25 (1756-1751) 
1749, [n.s.]. Geographical history of Nova Scotia; 
Franco-British difficulties there; importance of Nova 
Scotia for security of American possessions of France (ff . 
96-171) . 
1751, Nov., [n.s.]. Memoir on importance of forti- 
fying Nova Scotia; with geographical description of that 
country (ff. 190-201). 
[1751?], [n.s.]. Estimates of British military and 
naval expenditures for 1751, including cost of maintaining 
colonial troops (ff. 46-47, 181-189). 
27 (1661-1662) 
This volume, and volume 23, duplicate in large part 
contemporary volumes of the correspondance politique . 
They contain copies of correspondence concerning the 
embassy of d'Estrades in England. The documents in this 
volume are for the most part the same as in volume 23 for 
the same period , 
28 (1661-1662) 
This volume contains an analysis of the correspondence 
and negotiations of d'Estrades, May, 1661-Dec, 1662, taken 
from contemporary volumes of the correspondance politique . 
The restitution of Acadia to France is discussed on ff . 16, 
20, 22, 75. 
29, 30-, 31 (1662-1668) 
These three volumes are abstracts, with marginal 
headings and indexes, of several volumes of the correspon - 
dance politique . There are various references to America, 
but the original documents in full should be consulted by 
preference. The relation of these volumes to the volumes 
