"This book purports to be a series of [24] letters written from Louisbourg in 1752-58, and edited by the author" but was actually written by Pichon in London. Cf. John Clarence Webster's Life of Thomas Pichon (Sackville, N.B. : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1937)

An English edition, "translated from the author's original manuscript," was published in the same year.

Signatures: pi1 pi2 pi3 a⁴ B-O¹² P⁸ (P8 verso blank)

Echeverria & Wilkie. French image, 760/8.

Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana, III: 1275.

Gagnon, P. Essai de bibliographie canadienne, I: 685.

Dionne, N.E. Inventaire chronologique, 2: 639.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 has the half title leaf (p. [1-2], 1st count) bound after p. xvi. Bound in contemporary calf, with contemporary ms. notes on free endpaper.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy 1: Anquetil Duperron: inscription.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in contemporary calf.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Brown University Library: bookstamp and JCB bibliographical records.