1844-1853, Lapurteraz idatzitako gutunak

EGAÑA GOYA, Miren

Publication year:

1998

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-89516-71-5

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Summary

The purpose of our work is to give notice about some private letters, written between 1844 and 1853. These letters are written in Basque from Labourd and were sent to a man from Ziburu working on a ship. We found the letters in the Archives in St. Pierre et Miquelon, a French island to the south of Newfoundland, surrounded by Canadian waters. Jean Pierre Echepare´s family and friends wrote these letters to inform about goods they were sending to him, about the family health situation, thanking for money they had sent and so on... The letters were well conserved in 1991 when received photocopies. The following year, a fire broke out and destroyed the archives. We do not know whether the letters survived the fire.