Because of the indifference of the older Catholics Wendell writes to Lefevere. As their pastor, Father Otto Charles Skolla O.S.F. intends to leave for Lake Superior and the parishes of Mackinac and Point St. Ignace will be left to fall back into their old ways. He asks the Bishop for some suitable pastor. The Indian missions in Canada are in the care of the Jesuits, consequently Father Jean Baptiste Proulx of Montreal, Canada who had charge of the Manitowaning Mission, Lake Huron Ontario, Canada for six years will have to be removed, and Wendell asks Lefevere to persuade the Bishop of Canada to send him to Michilimackinac. If the Bishop does not like the suggestion, Wendell prays him to send them some priest who understands the French and English languages. Their congregation is amply able to support a pastor; there are fifty or sixty Catholics in the garrison. Wendell would also like to call the Bishop's attention to the barbarians along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan and especially in the vicinity of Grand Traverse Bay. There are some several hundred Indians who are very desirous of having a Catholic missionary among them but are exposed to Protestantism. The Presbyterian minister who has been among them for six years and who even went so far as to say that those who were Catholics would not be permitted to become American citizens and would be driven off their lands and sent west of the Mississippi Rover, has received but 12 or 15 proselytes. In spite of all the "bugbears", Catholicity, brought to their ancestors through the Jesuits, still exists and was revived by Father Francis Pierz' s missions. He renews his plea for a priest among them. :: III-2-h A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.