Guide to Documents Relating to French and British North America in ...

31 Fish mostly worked in the archives of Rome, but also visited Naples, Venice, Turin and Florence.
54
32 Fish, Guide, pp. 121-122.
33 Id., p. 1.
34 Ibidem.
35 Fish also names Thomas 1. Shahan, but this last seems not to have known the archives first hand,
but only the portions of the various bullarii relating to Propaganda. See Thomas 1. Shahan,
"L'histoire de l'Eglise catholique aux Etats-Unis," Revue d'histoire ecclesiastique, 1 (1900), pp.
678-689.
36 See note 24 for Memoriali and Scripta Varia. Fish's Miscellanee consists of documents of the
series Congressi Missioni Miscellanee, Congressi America Centrale Miscellanee, Miscellanee
Diverse, and Miscellanee Varie. Fish's Visite e Collegi consists of Congressi documents. The
Museo Etnografico is no longer housed in the palace of Propaganda.
37 This is the full citation: "Acta, 1788, f. 316, no. 1, Sept, 10. Father Charles Fran~ois Bailly de
Mefrein deputed coadjutor of the bishop of Quebec" (Fish, Guide, p. 141).
38 This is the full citation: "Acta, 1795, f. 8 Mar. 23. D. Leonard Neele (Neale) chosen coadjutor
of the Bishop of Baltimore" (id., p. 143).
39 Id., p. 151.
40 In revising the above sample, the editor has followed Fish's criteria, without challenging the
quality of the summary itself. The documents omitted by Fish have been added, his errors
corrected (corrections are in italics), and documents that do not in fact pertain to North America
are only mentioned.
41 Finbar Kenneally, ed., United States Documents in the Propaganda Fide Archives. A Calendar.
First Series, vols. 1-7 and Index to vols. 1-7, Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan
History, 1966-1981.
42 Achille Gingras (Guy Laviolette), "Repertoire des sources manuscrites de l'histoire religieuse
canadienne en Europe surtout a Paris, a Rome et a Londres: 1608 a 1860," unpublished thesis,
Institut Catholique de Paris (1958-1959).
43 Id. p. 240.
44 Ibidem.
45 Fish, Guide, p. 189.
46 Gingras, "Repertoire," p. 242.
47 This happens at least 21 times for the period 1622-1799 alone. The list below shows all
Gingras's errors that derive directly from Fish:
1 p. 241, line 14: "17 nov." instead of "11 nov."
2 p. 242, line 12: "Le P.V." instead of "Le P. Hyacinthe."
3 p. 242, line 34: "ff. [...] 359" instead of "ff. [...] 269."