Pierre-Esprit Radisson: The Collected Writings: The Port Nelson Relations, Miscellaneous Writings, and Related Documents 9780773596658

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
PREFACE
TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION
ILLUSTRATIONS
I The Port Nelson Relations , 1682–84
Relation of Events at Port Nelson, 1682–83
Relation of Events at Port Nelson, 1684
II Miscellaneous Writings, 1676?–83
Journal des choses les plus remarquables arivéé depuis nostre despart de la pointe Confort pour Port Nelson l’annéé 1673 [1676–78?]
Mémoire on the Northern Seacoast of North America [original untitled; 1676–78]
Letter to Claude Bernou [December 1677?]
Petition [to the Marquis de Seignelay? late 1683]
III Related Documents
Médard Chouart Des Groseilliers: Letter Concerning the Events at Port Nelson, 1682–83 [late 1683 or early 1684]
Radisson vs. the Hudson’s Bay Company: Complaint in Chancery, May 1694
Radisson’s Narrative in Reference to the Answer of the Commissioners of France, 1697
Radisson’s Affidavit, sworn before Sir Robert Geffery, 23 August 1697
Radisson’s Petition to Parliament, 1698
The Last Will and Testament of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, 17 June 1710
IV Appendices
Appendix A THE ABBÉ BERNOU DEBRIEFS RADISSON:THE SUPPOSED “PETITIONS”OF 1677 AND 1681
Appendix B “THE HISTORY OF MR RADISON’S TRANSACTIONS”WILLIAM YONGE’S LETTER, 1692
ADDENDUM: REFERENCES IN VOLUME 1 TO PAGES IN VOLUME 2
WORKS CONSULTED
INDEX

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