Pierz received Lefevere's letter of July 30 containing the draft for $150. The report of the schools and the neames of the pupils are enclosed in this letter. Pierz put only 3 schools and 4 teachers in this report, since Kosewag, the teacher at Middletown, was so negligent that Pierz had teach school there. Pierz is surprised to be reproached by Lefevere for the 5 new teachers and new schools established without Lefevere's permission, since Pierz expected to please Lefevere by doing so. If he established affiliated schools, it is for the education of the youth and this is done at his own expense, out of his own salary. He will have to look for Lefevere's permission to do his duty and to do good to the poor Indians. He would prefer to spend the entire government fund for the instruction of the young Indians, rather than leave one of them in ignorance. At the village of Agagotchiwing in which Pierz has baptized the chief, he went to visit them 4 times and gave them a good teacher to educate the small children and the adults in their prayers; the master is paid by Pierz and fed by the savages. At Castor Island Pierz found more than 20 ignorant children and adults and he gave them a good Catholic teacher. He did the same at Manistee, since the savages complained that the school stopped a year ago. At Grand Traverse in the Catholic Village, he found 20 children willing to learn to read and he gave them a master for a whole year. At Grand Traverse in the infernal village of the Presbyterians, where Pierz does not dare to give instruction lest the order will be disturbed, he placed a good Christian who will teach the catechism to the children everyday and to the adults on Sunday. Pierz gives the teacher some presents from time to time. This is all that Pierz did without Lefevere's permission. He asks Lefevere to forgive him. He thinks that Lefevere is angry at him and for this reason did not come to pay his visit to the savages. It is true that such a visit was always conditional, and the savages excuse Lefevere for not coming to visit them. Lefevere should have sent a letter to tell Pierz that he was not able to come, because Pierz could have gone to Detroit to consult the bishop on some important matters concerning the mission. For the time being, Pierz can waste no time nor money, since he has to visit at once his affliated missions which he knews are very weak at the present. However, he asks Lefevere to give him some information concerning a very important matter. The Catholics of Grand Traverse, to the number of 206, ask for a resident priest. Some would prefer to have their priest in the Catholic village, others want to have him in the village of the Presbyterian mission, because they could win some 200 pagans for religion. Pierz thinks that it will be much better to establish a Catholic mission one milefrom the Presbyterian mission, because there they could win some converts and at the same time to favor the desire of the great number of Catholics and pagans. He would establish a filial church in the small village of 50 Catholics. Pierz intended to go there to arrange matters but he sent Father Ignatius Mrak to stay during the terrible winter. He asks Lefevere's point of view on the matter and tells him that the Presbyterian minister no longer has the respect of the savages. Mrak shows himself a good missionary. :: III-2-h A.L.S. French 4pp. 8vo.