1º. Quid sit Nova Francia, qualis regio, qui in eâ populi, quique mores.
2º. Quo modo, quibusve auxiliis aut successu, Societas missionem illá in regione consecuta sit.
3º. Quonam in statu rem Christianam his in locis offenderit Societas.
4º. Quid a missionariis hactenus effectum seu potius attentatum sit.
The letter is divided, as it were, under four heads, and relates:
1st. What New France is, the nature of the country, what tribes inhabit it, and their customs.
2nd. In what manner, with what help and with what success the Society secured a mission in that country.
3rd. In what condition the Society found the Christian religion in this region.
4th. What has been done by the missionaries thus far, or rather what has been attempted.
Licet epistola sub finem habeat: ultimo die Januarii CIↃ. IↃC. XI. ia quidem aut error in anno est, aut P. Biardus secundum stylum veterem scripsit, nam debit esse annus, CIↃ. IↃC. XII.