On September 7, Permoli received Timon's letter of August 5. It has only caused him chagrin for he had not expected an order so severe. Timon said that in sending the reply of the Superior General it is also his duty to withdraw the permission to remain in New Orleans. Timon will recall that Permoli said that if he wished to re-enter the Congregation Vincentians it would not be in this country but in Europe. Why then does Timon further afflict Permoli by recalling him to the Barrens? Permoli would like to be in Timon's company, but here, in New Orleans, at the Cathedral. All efforts with Bishop Anthony Blanc to make Permoli leave would be in vain. To not wish to re-enter the Congregation is not a crime for which they can interdict. If they wish to ask Blanc to deprive Permoli of his faculties, Permoli will assuredly remain at New Orleans. He has means to live; he has foreseen these blows. If they force him to leave here for Europe, Father Louis Moni promises to follow him, and then disorder will reign at New Orleans, for Moni is loved by all and when the motive for his departure is known, there is no knowing what will follow. Permoli does not wish to remain to accumulate money, he already has enough, but solely that he is obliged to work as a priest and that this place suits him because of his paucity of intellectual means. No great talent is required to visit the sick, bury the dead, baptize, copy some sermons and then recite them. If he is forced to leave here, it is good-bye to the ministry. Permoli replies to what Father John Baptist Etienne, C.M. told Timon on behalf of Father Lego, C.M. Superior General. The missionaries from Parish in bringing Permoli what Lego wrote relative to him, replied only to Permoli's d first letter, brought by Father Jean Caretta, C.M., himself, who left New Orleans April 1, 1833, and Permoli received the answer two years later. It contained almost the same things Etienne told Timon, but they did not reply at all to two other letters Permoli wrote in which the motives were not the same. Permoli wrote to Caretta who was then in Rome, and asked him to request of the Penitentiary the dispensation from his vows. Caretta was about to do this when he met Father John Mary Odin, C.M. who told him this was not necessary since the Superior General had said that all subjects of the Congregation, living in america, who did not re-enter three months after notice were expelled. The same thing was told in Paris to Moni. Permoli holds to the letter of Father Jean Baptiste Tornatore, C.M. who told him that the dispensation would be sent to him; that while awaiting it, he belonged no longer to the Congregation, and that his sole superior now was the bishop of New Orleans. Tornatore could not lie about so important a matter. Tornatore wrote at the same time to Blanc which contained the same thing. Permoli is going to the Penitentiary to obtain the dispensation from his vows; Father Philip Ascensio, now vicar of the cathedral, has been dispensed from his solemn vows. Although Permoli does not need the dispensation, he wishes to request it in order to pacify all the priest of the Congregation., P.S. Memorandum for Father John Peter Boullier, C.M.: Father Auguste JeanJean says that the note drawn by Mr. Fauchet for $61.81 has been protested and the one of Mr. Laurent's which Boullier had told JeanJean not to collect at the bank, was not paid when due; it is for $79. :: IV-3-j A.L.S. French 3pp. 4to.