In Detroit, two weeks ago, Kundig was very anxious to talk with Lefevere but decided that a letter would be more to the purpose. About the time of the cholera epidemic in Detroit, Bishop Frederick Rese appeared before the Board of County Supervisors who appointed Kundig Director of the County Hospital and Poorhouse. The question of who was to send and dismiss and pay for the patients was then decided. But in 1839 Kundig's advances reached the sum of $7000 and the banks having failed, the board could not pay him or return the amount and offered him county orders which Kundig disposed of at enormous discount. An orphan asylum for the children orphaned by the pestilence could no longer be kept up. It was the same asylum believed to be Bishop Rese's since he had bound himself to St. Ann's Corporation to keep one. He could no longer keep it and the orphans were scattered. Kundig became pastor of Trinity and soon after, on account of Father Joseph Freygang's difficulties, likewise pastor of the numerous Germans. At the same time he assisted Father Francis Vincent Badin . He commenced the building of St. Mary's Church . In Detroit he called on Father Anthony Kopp and Messrs. Reno and Krug and demanded the $94 laid out of his own resources for St. Mary's Church. He was told that they could not pay it; though the money was on hand, the Bishop did not allow it. Kundig called on Mr. Williams the treasurer of Trinity Congregation, for his pay and was told that $200 of his money had been paid to Lefevere, supposedly for his board. He asks if Lefevere will "detain" $94 which he spent for St. Mary's Church and the $200 for his services as pastor to the Germans for his board. Rese would not have done so and Kundig does not think Lefevere will. Pointing out how much he did for himself he asks if it is right to detain the $200. Lawyer Bacon of Monroe Michigan offered him a due bill of $800 for $200 but he could not pay it be cause he has no money. :: III-2-h A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.