There is some misunderstanding in their agreement of 1876 to collect Jeremiah O'Connor's debt. Van Gennip had absolutely no other idea than that Philip should collect the whole amount due to the poor, without regard how it was to be done, under the condition that Van Gennip should pay $1000 to St. Anthony Asylum after the amount due was collected. From this it is clear that getting a mortgage was not satisfying the agreement. When he said in 1876 that Philip will know best how to act and that he did not press immediate pay, it was to give Philip time to choose the most convenient opportunity for collecting the debt, nothing else. Henry F. Brownson says he might have sold the mortgage but that is about of the question as Philip was to collect the dues. Philip is not to think Van Gennip is in the least dissatisfied but Van Gennip wanted to correct these misapprehensions. Van Gennip did not know that Philip had commenced foreclosure and therefore he asks Philip not to delay the work. Van Gennip is so anxious because the whole amount belongs to the pagans in China, to buy from them their children who are otherwise thrown into the rivers or to the dogs. :: III-3-a A. L. S. 3pp. 12mo.