Providence, R.I. Thoreau writes in his journal:
[Thaddeus W.] Harris tells me that since he exchanged a duplicate Jesuit Relation for one he had not with the Montreal men, all theirs have been burnt. He has two early ones which I have not seen.
Cambridge, Mass. Thoreau checks out Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America, from childhood to the age of nineteen by John D. Hunter, History of the five Indian nations of Canada which are dependent on the province of New York, and are a barrier between the English and the French by Cadwallader Colden, Relation de ce qui s’est passé en la Nouvelle France en l’année 1639, and Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United Statesby Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, volume 4, from Harvard College Library.
