Kindekens hastens to inform Lefevere that, aided by the Immaculate Virgin, he has obtained 11,000 francs at 4 percent which will enable him to pay the entire purchase sum for their American College at Louvain . The final act of purchase is to take place in two or three days; it will be in his name, as the only way he could act in Belgium. He has not yet opened the subscription. He has heard nothing from the affairs of Count Felix de Merode but hopes to get most of the 60,000 francs promised by the Count. He could get 12,000 francs, quarter share of Count Werner de Merode, but he has not touched it. The Bishop Louis Joseph Delebecque of Ghent has heard from the Association of the Propagation that they cannot give money to Louvain because it is not in a mission country or a country dominated by heresy, but they can give aid to the bishops sending students to Louvain to study. The Bishop of Belgium drew up at their meeting a more solemn demand for 40,000 or 50,000 francs. He will let Lefevere know the results as soon as he learns them. In the meantime Lefevere is to make his own petition. P.S. He asks Lefevere to tell Father Edward Joos that the Bishop of Ghent wants to know what he is doing about requests other than that of the American college. An American of Detroit has come to him with letters from Joos. He sends his compliments to his family and missionaries of Adrian Michigan . They should teach other manners to the knownothings of Coldwater A.L.S. French. Enclosure.