Manuscripts, Canadian
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
J.A. Cuoq letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-206
Abstract
Five letters, 1879-1894, from J.A. Cuoq to James Constantine Pilling, an American ethnologist particularly interested in Indian languages, who compiled comprehensive bibliographies on the topic and assembled the renowned library of the Bureau of American Ethnology. In Cuoq's responses to Pilling's apparent requests for copies of his works, he notes in an 1879 letter that all copies of requested volumes were destroyed in an 1877 fire at Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes. Later notes concern the...
Dates:
1879-1894
James Constantine Pilling letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-727
Abstract
Ethnologist, linguist, and bibliographer James Constantine Pilling's incoming correspondence, 1881-1894, with U.S. and Canadian missionaries, church officials, ethnologists, historians, and others regarding Indian languages, publications in Indian languages, and missionaries to the Indians. 56 items total.
Dates:
1881-1894