Baraga received the Bishop's letter of Oct. 5 on Dec. 24 1841, the day after his arrival at Fond du Lac. Baraga is sorry not to have marked on his money orders the day on which they were payable, according to his arrangements with his creditors. He thought it was sufficient to inform the Bishop about the time. Baraga has already drawn some money from the $300.- which the government has been accustomed to pay for the schools every spring. He asks the Bishop to let him have all of the $300. But as this sum will not be sufficient to cover all his money orders, he wants him to take the balance out of that money which will arrive from Europe, as gifts from his friends. What the Bishop had asked Baraga about the Circular from Washington, has been arranged this summer in Lapointe. Mr. William Almy Richmond asked Baraga to give him two copies of each publication of his books in the Chippewa language for the War department, and Baraga brought them to Richmond's office in Lapointe. Baraga hopes that the Bishop has received his "Answers" to the questions asked by the government in regard to the Indians. He had entrusted them to Captain Calvin Ripley, to give them to Mr. Peter B. Barbeau in Sault Ste. Marie to be sent by him to the Bishop. Baraga informs him also that he has received a short notice from Mr. John R. Livingston, that a large box of his Indian books was on the schooner Merchant, which left Sault Ste. Marie about June 8, 1847 and has never been seen or heard of since. This loss will decrease his edition considerably. While writing this letter, Baraga received the Ordo, and the Almanac from the manuscript of his "Answers". P.S. Concerning the Almanac of 1848, Baraga criticizes the article about the mission at L'Anse and compares it with the one of 1847. It is shorter but otherwise it has not been changed. He objects to the words "three years ago" when it should have been changed to "four years ago". Further it said in 1847 that the church is attended by 33 families, whose number is continually increasing. But if the mission is continually increasing, the number 33 should be changed in 1848. In fact there are 42 families now and there will still be more in 1849. Also the "common field" is extending as the mission is increasing. Baraga realizes that it is all his fault since he had not sent a new report of his mission to the Bishop. 2nd P.S. His school has increased more this year than ever before. He has also several in school who pay a little and whom he prepares for baptism. If the Bishop wants a report about the school, he should send Baraga some formulas or a plan on which he could make such a report. :: III-2-h A.L.S. French 3pp. 8vo