Letter : Oka, [Quebec], to Rev. Albert Osborn, Buffalo, New York, 1888 Jan 4.

1 item (2 leaves) ; 21 cm.

French

Purchased from Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Co. on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2003.

Father Jean André Cuoq, priest, missionary, author and linguist, was born in France in 1866. He entered the Sulpician order in 1843, and was ordained in Paris in 1845. In 1846, he became a missionary to the Indians at the Lake of Two Mountains near the town of Oka in the Canadian province of Québec. He acquired knowledge of local Iroquois and Algonquin dialects and supervised the publication of several religious pamphlets prepared in Algonquin as well as the publication of an Iroquois dictionary. Other publications included "La Livre des sept nations" (1861); "Jugement erroné de M. Ernest Renan sur les langues sauvages" (1864); and "Études philologiques sur quelques langues sauvages de l'Amérique" (1866). Cuoq died at the Lake of Two Mountains mission on July 21, 1898.

ALS, in French, written by Jean André Cuoq to Reverend Albert Osborn of Buffalo, New York. The note explains how many of Cuoq's linguistic studies were lost in an 1877 fire that occurred at the premises of his printer, J. Chapleau & fils. Cuoq advises Osborn about which Montréal dealers stock Cuoq's remaining Algonquin and Iroquois linguistic works, and estimates the selling price of these publications. The note mentions that Cuoq intends to enclose his message with a sample of his work.

January 09, 2007

J. A. Cuoq, Letter to Rev. Albert Osborn. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

J. A. Cuoq, Letter to Rev. Albert Osborn. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.