Menet writes to give an account of the mission and to consult Lefevere about some cases which he foresees he will have to solve. When Lefevere comes to visit he will see for himself whether Menet has used his money to advantage. All is not finished as yet. The old presbytery being no longer inhabited, Menet has been busy enlarging the church. He has had a lean-to made, one part to be used as a sacristy and the other part as a school and a warming room. The part joined to the church has enlarged it a third. There are only the seats to be made which will be done little by little as they have the money. Menet does not want to put the church in debt. As to the spiritual condition, Lefevere knows the place. The population changes so much that one is always beginning over again. The savage kind of marriage and the great number of taverns present great difficulties. The school, for boys only, will begin as soon as the books ordered by Brother Lacoste arrive from Detroit. Menet has not obtained a second Brother; maybe he will next year. In the meantime a young man does the housework. He recently was visited by the pastor of Mackinac Michigan , Father Andrew Piret , who could stay only one day. Previously, Father Frederic Baraga had spent some time there. During his stay, Menet consulted him on a case which he believes will come up soon and upon which he would like a definite solution. It is the case of a young man who, to escape a two or three year prison sentence and a heavy fine, married the girl who had a child by him and who sued him for breach of promise, because he knew that if he did not live with her for three years, he could, at the end of that time, obtain a divorce. Father Baraga believed that the fear under which he acted would invalidate the marriage and Father P. Chone, S.J. whom he also consulted when going through Sault, believed that the intention of the contracting party is another reason in favor of nullity. If one or the other presents himself to be married what is Menet to do? He is of the same opinion as the two missionaries that it was not a true marriage. Menet talked and wrote to Lefevere last year about some Sisters for the education of the girls. He sounded out an order to see, in case he could procure the funds to support them, if they would be willing to come to Sault Ste. Marie. He is counting on the help of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith. They wrote him from Paris that they would be interested if Lefevere approves and if Lefevere could also do something to support this establishment whose usefulness cannot be denied. But Lefevere has written that he cannot give aid. The troubles in Europe make it look far from favorable. So it is an affair to which he will give no further thought at present but if he finds a religious order willing to undertake their own support, he asks if Lefevere would approve. :: III-2-h A.L.S. French 3pp. 8vo.