I went; and paid my
compliments also to Madame de la Peltrie, who had sent us presents. I was
near leaving this out, which would have been a great oversight. At home, I
gave to our Fathers and Brothers what I thought they would like best. I
had given beforehand to F. De Quen, for Sillery, all he chose to take from
my room, and a choice present for Father Masse." - Journal, p. 24.
[13] Histoire de la Colonie Francaise en Canada, Vol. III., p. 384.
[14] History of Emily Montague, 4 Vols., 1767 - London.
[15] The "dear man," in a concluding paragraph, dated 1st July, 1766, to
John Temple, Esq., Pall-Mall, London, says: "Adieu! I am going to attend a
very handsome French lady, who allows me the honour to drive her en
calashe to our Canadian Hyde Park, the road to St. Foix, where you
will see forty or fifty calashes, with pretty women in them, parading
every evening." - (History of Emily Montague, Vol. I., p. 25.) The
handsome Colonel Rivers, who so fancied his drives on the Foye road in
1766, the writer was told by Hon. W. Sheppard, was no other than the
gallant Colonel Henry Caldwell, Wolfe's Assistant Quartermaster-General at
the battle of the Plains, in 1759 - the "Laird of Belmont" - who died at
Quebec in 1810, a friend, no doubt, of the clever Mrs. Brookes who wrote
this novel.
