Baraga requests Lefevere to write to Father Ignatius Mrak, of Grand Traverse, and persuade him not to leave the Indian missions, Mrak had written to Baraga that next spring he intends to quit America and to go back to Europe. Baraga entreated him immediately not to do that. He proposed that he change missions, and take one of the two L'Arbre-Croche missions, if Mrak preferred them to that of Grand Traverse. Baraga told him that he could not leave the missions with a good conscience as he knows all the languages necessary there. Baraga asks Lefevere to find out the true reason of that strange intention of leaving the country. Baraga also received a note from Father Napoleon Mignoult offering his services. He speaks French and English equally well and promises to bring an Exeat from Bishop John Martin Henni. But Henni wrote to Baraga that Mignoult had given trouble and scandal both east and west on account of hard drinking and its consequences. Baraga asks Lefevere to let him have one of his priests as he does not know who would be with him in Saut Ste. Marie. :: III-2-j A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.