Stephen Laurent Papers
Language: Abenaki, Western | English | French
Date: 1846, circa 1920s, circa 1950s-1990s
Contributor: Laurent, Joseph | Laurent, Stephen | Marrault, Joseph | Fister, Margaret
Subject: Linguistics | New Hampshire--History | Religion
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence | Newspaper clippings | Poems | Prayers
Extent: 3.75 Linear feet
Description: Papers of Stephen Laurent, son of Joseph Laurent (1839-1917), Chief of the St. Francis Abnakis and author of New Familiar Abenaki and English Dialogues (1884), and grandson of Joseph Laurent, also chief. Primarily contains outgoing letters from Stephen Laurent's wife, Margaret Fisher, to her family, and miscellaneous documentation relation to Laurent's activities as an interpreter of Abenaki history in New Hampshire. The main Abenaki language material in the collection is found in one catechism and prayer book in Abenaki from 1846 by Joseph Marrault, a Jesuit.
Collection: Stephen Laurent Papers Mss.Ms.Coll.118