This is one of two known manuscript collections created by Prudent L. Mercure sometime between 1890 and 1913. Deposited in 1985 at the Centre de documentation et d’étude madawaskayennes (CDEM), Centre universitaire St-Louis-Maillet, Edmundston, New Brunswick. The other collection is deposited at the Manuscript Division of the National Archives of Canada (N.A.C.) in Ottawa, Ontario. (N.A.C. Collection MCC,96- 00134) (See also "Prudent L. Mercure Papers, and MCC,00146)