Father Baraga gives a short account of the money which the late Bishop Edward Fenwick had given him for his mission in August, 1831. The sum was $250 - and in Detroit the Bishop had left $200 - for printing expenses of the Indian prayer book. He also gave Madame Marianne Lasaliere Fisher $50 personally. Those $250 were the first money Father Baraga had received in America. He had to buy many things in Detroit for the mission, church and school, nothing for himself. He urges Rese to go to the stores Steavens and Desnoyers and see for himself in the books if he had bought even one article which would have been indispensable, especially now when he has the fortune to have both a locksmith and a smith in the person of Frater Aloys Schuh and a teacher and carpenter in the person of Joseph L'etourneau in his mission. He gives an itemized account of his $268 expenditures. As he has already spent $18 more than Bishop E. Fenwick gave him, namely money which he can call his own with his best conscience and not from the 400 florins which he received from the Leopoldine Association and which he used up on his trip. As he has received only $200 for the printing of the Indian prayer books and whereas the bill which is at present in the hands of Father V. Badin is $297, he hopes that Father Rese will pay the difference. The Leopoldine Association, which has the missions among the Indians greatly at heart, would be very much displeased if Father Rese should refuse to pay the $97. The teacher L'etourneau came to L'arbre Croche with the consent of Bishop Fenwick as can be proved by a letter. But that teacher was only willing to go for a salary of $100 a year and there is not that much money left. All Father Baraga could bring from Cincinnati to L'arbre Croche was $65 and as he had to buy several things for himself and the mission he has only $30 left. He begs rese to see that the yearly contribution which the Government if Washington has granted the mission will not be in arrears. Only then will he be able to pay L'etourneau and also clothe his little Indian boarders, for the Indians expect to have their children clothed when they send them to the mission boarding school. As soon as he returns to L'arbre Croche he will send a detailed report about the school, which can be sent on to Washington. He assures Rese that he means it only good with him. :: III-2-g A.L.S. German 3pp. 4to.