Pierz sends Lefevere a report concerning the missions. By railway and stage coach it took Pierz 32 hours to go from Detroit to Grand Rapids. But Pierz found out that Viszocky was absent at an affiliated mission and that Father Charles De Ceuminck was sick with a fever. Consequently, Pierz had to say Mass and to give a sermon in the new church. De Ceuminck is a good priest but somewhat exuberant. He engages laborers to complete the church at a very high salary without consulting Father Andrew Viszoczky. He also go a new cook, a horse and buggy and naturally did not pay for it. Poor Viszoczky to get a flourishing mission. All the parishioners like Viszoczky very much. He suffers everything in silence which is not a good thing for his health. Pierz tells Lefevere such a secret because he would be able to fix up everything with De Ceuminck during his visit to Grand Rapids. In arriving at Mackinac, Pierz heard that two drunkards had fallen into the lake at the time of the payment. Pierz was very much saddened when he was told that the merchant Alexi and his helper Berchard, both drunkards, established themselves at Petit Praverse for the winter. Berchard told the savages that he wrote to Lefevere asking him if it were true he was not willing to let Berchard do any business with the savages. Lefevere supposedly answered that it was not he but Pierz and that action was not the way to go to heaven. Because of their ingratitude Pierz is disgusted with his savages and says that he does not want anymore for them. Father A Van Pamel and Ignatius Mrak are of the same mind and they complain all the time that things get worse. The savages at Grand Traverse are much better but Pierz velieces that the mission is not good for him at his age, since the savages are living too far away from each other. Furthmore around Grand Traverse there are many Irish to whom he cannot give any care, since he cannot speak English. Mrak and Van Pamel are two vigorous priests and know the necessary languages. They would be able to take care of the missions, which Pierz has served seven years. In giving up his mission, Pierz asks Lefevere very sincerely to release him from the Diocese. After that he hopes to go to Minnesota where there are many pagans and where he has to fulfil the promise made to the chief to go there within four years. There are still pagans there because there is no priest able to speak the language of the savages. Pierz asks Lefevere the permission to stay for the winter at Mackinac or La Pointe St. Ignace where he would be able to take care of the savages. The savages at the Pointe St. Ignace never had any instruction in their own language. He does ask to be released not because he dislikes Lefevere or the diocese but because his conscience is not satisfied. Indeed, he cannot work hard anymore without risking his health. In such a difficult situation Pierz asks Lefevere to have pity on him and to let him fo for the common good of all. He looks for a place where he will be able to work again for several years with the pleasure and honor of God to soften his old days with some spiritual consolation. For the mission the best thing would be to give Mrak the mission at Grand Traverse where the savages are without a priest to defend themselves against the attempts of the Protestants. And Van Pamel at Lacroix, since he is a good man and able to conduct a mission of his own. As to Little Traverse Pierz says that the best thing to do is to consider it an affiliated mission and to leave the savages without a priest until next spring to punish them for their bad conduct. :: III-2-h A.L.S. French 6pp. 8vo.