Delebecque received Lefevere's letter of July 19. He thanks him for the details about Father de Balle who, he hopes, will always be a worthy priest. He is sorry that Lefevere admitted Father Charles Lemagie . He fears that if the clergy know he is a missionary in the diocese of Detroit they will have a bad opinion of the diocese. He advises him to use him only to say Mass and not to put his name in the Almanac as it is known there. The Bishops of Belgium have done everything possible in favor of the American College at Louvain . Father Peter Kindekens has not succeeded in getting them to make another application to the Association for the Propagation of the Faith, but they resolved at their meeting on August 4 that Kindekens should deal with the Central Council of the Propagation of the Faith through the mediation of the American bishops upon whom he is dependent. Delebecque desires to see the College patronized by many American bishops but he fears that the direction of Father Kindekens will be an obstacle to this desire. Father Peter Francis Xavier de Ram, Rector of the Catholic University of Louvain seems of the same opinion. They complain of the aloofness of Kindekens towards the administration of the College. Delebecque believes that if Fathers Edmund Dumont, Edward Joos, or John De Neve were in charge, they would inspire the confidence of the Belgian clergy and the Council of the Propagation and perhaps of the American bishops. The English College established at Bruges six months ago and directed by Canon Dessein would send some students to the American College, Delebecque believes. He asks Lefevere to great Fathers De Neve, Joos, Aloysius Lambert, and John Cappon for him. :: III-2-i A.L.S. French 4pp. 12mo. 10