Mrak, Father Ignatius, Mackinac, Michigan, to Bishop Peter Paul Lefevere, Detroit, Michigan, 1848 October 25
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Mrak received Lefevere's letters with the money. He hopes soon to see the bell. He has the names of the teachers of the school. He submits to the bishop two marriage cases concerning Indians. On Oct. 13 Father Francis Pierz and the Indians came, today, Oct. 25, they received the money. They came from Manistee . They lose more than they gain in temporal and spiritual things. There are many "saloons of whiskey" and many Indians are drunk, a few of them Christians. They wander about shouting all night, all get cold and hungry and returning on the lake they are in danger from the lake from which the large boats now flee. :: III-2-h A.L.S. Latin 3pp. 8va.
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- Creation: 1848 October 25
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