Richemont thanks Brownson for his kind letter, which he was unable to answer during his travels in the East. He received a copy of Richard Elliott's sketch of Father Gabriel Richard, is very much interested in the subject, and will return the sketch as soon as he has finished with it. He will be very happy to pay his tribute to the memory of the pioneer of religion and education in the West, and would appreciate Brownson's thanking Elliott for asking him to do so. He thanks Brownson for the very complete bibliography he sent, and was very glad to see John Gilmary Shea and Richard H. Clarke in New York. In Paris he gave the news of Brownson to Claudio Jannes, who introduced the two, and talked with him about several questions on which Brownson gave him useful information. As he knew something more about statistics on religious matters, Richemont incloses his questions and inquires for himself about the real causes of the failure of the Church to take root in the proper American soil. Brownson has told him that conversions in the United States have not been in proportion to what they should have been and that Catholics have kept only about one-third of the immigrants and their descendants from apostatizing. He asks Brownson's opinion of whether the causes are moral or social and whether Masonry has something to do with this. A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. The letter contains the following enclosure: