Sister Mary Therese acknowledges Father Power's letter of January 7. She perceives by his letter that the Lady Abbess MaryFrances Vindevoghel, P.C. has deceived him with regard to the property of Bishop Frederick Rese in Detroit. The Abbess is said to have told the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda that St. Clare's Seminary belonged to her, that she had given the Bishop $2000 for it. This is a lie because she had told Sister Therese several times that she desired the Bishop to pay himself out of the Pittsburgh property and that he refused to do it. St. Clare's Seminary cost the Bishop more than $5000. Since Sister Therese was one of the first Sisters there, she knows all the affairs relating to it. The Abbess has not written to the Bishop since her arrival nor answered Sister Therese's two letters dated December 12. She begs Father Power to inform her of all the Abbess's designs so that she will know how to act. Sister Therese and another professed sister have kept this place up since June 24, 1837 and still continue to do so. The Abbess should be satisfied with the destruction of Pittsburgh which she caused by her civil proceedings, to which Sister Therese can certify, having had the papers in her hands. She never found out how the Abbess had deceived her until after her departure. The Abbess' companion, the supposed novice, Augustin Sister Augustine Conway? left there with the intention never to join the order. If the Abbess were to find out about this correspondence she would persecute Sister Therese, perhaps try to injure her in Rome. ` P.S. She asks Father Power to write her immediately. :: III-2-g A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo. ` 5