Baraga requests the Bishop to send the little box which he is sending with the letter to Vienna Austria by the surest opportunity. He also wants to know what to do about sick-calls to distant mining settlements. There are many Catholics on Keweenaw Point and Ontonagon. If every one that falls sick calls for a priest, it will be very hard on him. He does not think that he is obliged to answer such sick-calls, as he is not the regular pastor of all these distant congregations. He does for them whatever he can. He visits them regularly 6 times a year; 3 times all the settlements on the Point, and 3 times those of Ontonagon. One of these visits is always at Easter time. They perform their Easter duty with surprising exactness. On these visits he preaches, hears confessions, says Mass and gives Holy Communion, baptizes and performs marriages. This, he thinks, is all they can expect of him, as he has his own regular congregation and mission, which he cannot neglect by leaving it too often, If the Bishop should advise him to obey every sick-call to the mining settlements, he will do so. :: III-2-h A.L.S. English 2pp. 8vo.