Everything that survives of Nicolas Herman, lay brother of the Discalced Carmelites in Paris (c. 1614-1691), cook and then sandal-mender, master of the presence of God among the pots and pans: his Spiritual Maxims, his sixteen Letters and the four Conversations that Abbé Joseph de Beaufort took down from his lips in 1666-1667, with the Eulogy and the Character of Brother Lawrence, which are Beaufort's and not Lawrence's. The text of the 1692-1694 editions as reprinted in 1924 (Fischbacher), where Beaufort's two prefaces are abridged.
