Lefevere will recall that DeNeve is separated from him; he has been torn from a congregation which he loves as the apple of his eye, in order to devote himself to Lefevere's desires and to take the direction of a house where he has found little consolation. He refers to Father Peter Kindekens ' change, his account of the college, the recall of Father August Durst . Every day De Neve waits for a letter from Lefevere to end a sad state of affairs. The future of the college, DeNeve has no doubt about; the constant protection of the Bishop of Ghent Louis Joseph Delebecque in particular and the other Belgian bishops assures that, but every effort should be made to put it on a solid basis. To that effect the Bishop of Ghent writes him: Father Brys, a professor at the minor seminary, has returned from Rome where he saw Cardinal Alexander Barnabo of the Propagation, who was not satisfied with the American College at Louvain, and its rector Father Peter Kindekens, whom the Cardinal did not know had been replaced. The Cardinal was astonished at the number of letters written by Kindekens to him, asking help of the Association of the Propagation for a college erected without his authority. He was not astonished at the tenseness of the Central Office Paris toward the American College, he is more astonished at the reserve of the greater part of the American bishops toward the college. Consequently, Bishops Lefevere and Martin John Spalding should correct the abnormal position of the college in Louvain in soliciting a Brief of Approbation from the Holy See unless the Provincial Council of Cincinnati of 1858 disapproves. Barnabo would like nothing else than such a petition. The Bishop of Nesqualy Augustine M. A. Blanchet has graciously become a patron of the college. :: III-2-j A.L.S. French 4pp. 12mo. 10