Steinhauser wrote Lefevere in September about the discouraging situation of most of his people because of the failure of the lumber business. It is the same in Grand Haven and elsewhere. He longed for the $150 he hoped Lefevere would oblige Father Francis Van Erp to pay him but he has been obliged to "let raffle out" his horse to pay the most urgent debts. He asks help or advice as he did last winter. He sold his watch for $125, bought a horse and went all over the mission but now he had nothing with which to buy another horse. $50 would pay the most urgent debts, $20 for board and $30 for the last payment of the carpenters who built the church. He built the house and a good part of the church at his own expense. He hopes Lefevere will grant the same security for his money as he did to Eliseus Vinne. Over $150 in subscriptions will not be paid before next summer. Two weeks ago a woman brought a child to be baptised. The father was Mr. Grand who died in Chicago. He visited Mrs. Grand, found her and two children sick with ague; a request of Catholic women to assist her came to nothing, he marched them to his own house, where a Mr. and Mrs. Ledoux helped to care for them. In Europe there are societies to buy negro children in Africa to baptize them but here for the want of such means children of Catholic parents are given to Protestants. He asks Lefevere's assistance. :: III-2-i A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.