Having written to Father William Quarter with regard to the Lady Abbess Sister Mary Frances Vindevoghel, P.C., Father Quarter replied that he would prefer that any further correspondence should be through Bishop Hughes or Bishop John Dubois. Sister Therese encloses a letter for the Abbess because she is not sure of her answering it if it is sent by post. The Abbess told Father Quarter that she had written four letters to Sister Therese but that is not true. She had written two secret letters through the hands of a strict Presbyterian, of Detroit with strict orders not to let the Bishop Frederick Rese or Father Martin Kundig know about them. As to the letter of Propaganda, her own knowledge of affairs relating to the Bishop's property in Detroit makes Sister Therese sure that the Abbess must have made a wrong assertion in Rome to obtain such a letter to dispose of what does not belong to her as she never gave one cent for it. It was she who destroyed the Pittsburgh house by her civil proceedings in the name of the Bishop, driving out a number of professed Sisters without means of support, Sister Therese's own sister, Sister Marie Josephine Fulham, P.C. being in that band. Sister Therese does not wish Bishop Dubois to know of this explanation since he is the Abbess' confessor and might reveal to her all this. She asks the Bishop to oblige the Abbess to give a full explanation of what her intention is concerning them and asks the Bishop to inform them to that effect.P.S. Since they are from the same country they feel a sympathy for each other and she hopes the Bishop will not refuse the implicit confidence she places in him. ` A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. ` Enclosed with this is the following letter: