Western missions and missionaries : a series of letters / by P.J. de Smet.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cinquante nouvelles lettres du R.P. de Smet. English
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926.
Main Author: Smet, Pierre-Jean de, 1801-1873
Other Authors: Terwecoren, Edward
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Published: New York : P.J. Kenedy, Excelsior Pub. House, 1881, [©1859]
Series:Sabin Americana, 1500-1926.
Subjects:
Smet, Pierre-Jean de, > 1801-1873 > Correspondence.
Missionaries > West (U.S.) > Correspondence.
Missionaries > West (U.S.) > Biography.
West (U.S.) > Description and travel.
Indigenous peoples of North America > West (U.S.) > Social life and customs.
Catholic Church > Missions > West (U.S.)
Genre:
Correspondence.
Biography.
Online Access:
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Local Note:
Scanned copy imperfect: loss of print on p. 208, 357-358.
Biography; Religion; Travel; Antebellum.
2007Y095100.
Physical Description:532, 4 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm
Format: Electronic eBook
Description
Note:English translation of the French-language original: "Cinquante nouvelles lettres du R.P. de Smet" (Tournai, 1858).
"Biographical letters": pages 424-532.
"Preface to the Belgian Edition": (pages [7]-10), by Edward Terwecoren.
Publisher's advertising: 4 pages at end.
Reproduction of the original from Yale University Libraries.
Sabin number 82277.
Electronic resource.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.