Pourret thinks it will please Lefevere to hear good news from Grand Rapids, lately visited by the curse of God. Yesterday he had a crowd of children at Mass and immediately they proceeded to the schoolhouse with their new teacher Mrs. Savane . He made the former teacher, Mary Rolland, leave the school without incurring her displeasure. 75 children will be taught sound Catholic principles. The teacher was highly recommended by Father Francis Van Erp . There is a prospect of having a religious body of men or women soon. The lawsuit of M. Walsh, for Father Hugh Quigley, versus Father Rievers Henry Rivers? for a bad note of $40 was dropped. 40 children made their First Communion this year. The people have nothing but respect for Pourret. Father James Hennessy, by promising to do all he could to get an Irish priest, has, they say, disappointed them. Should there be two priests and one not Irish, Pourret is convinced there would be trouble again. He asks the favor of not being obliged to go to Muskegon on Sunday but to attend it and Grand Haven on week days. Even the best members would be displeased; this is also Rievers' and Father Marco's opinion. Pourret will comply with what is required by the Council of Trent with regard to the excommunication incurred there when his confidence in them is confirmed. Had they been well treated they would never have acted as they did. P.S. He sends his best respects to Father Hennaert who is to read this letter if Lefevere thinks well of it. :: III-2-i A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo. 10