De Neve is happy to have at last received the news. It is difficult to get credit so long as his money remains a year in Paris and he is not authorized to negotiate loans. He has not received anything for Detroit since Sept. 6, 1864. Adolphe Certes has written Lefevere that he would send money to De Neve, but objects to any future agreement. De Neve will send his report at the end of the scholastic year of the American College at Louvain . As regards priests; there are at present two in the seminary for Detroit, Father John Reichenbach and Father John Anthony Herwig ; they have 2½ years of theology. Francis O'Flanagan and James C. Pulcher only are from Detroit diocese and should remain here another year. De Neve has transferred a student to meet expenses to a non-patron bishop. As to Henry Delbaere, the association with a priest like Fathers Francis Van der Bom, John Busche, Aloysius Lambert, Edward Joos, etc., for some years would make him a precious worker. It is extremely regrettable that the good will and youthfulness of his seminarians can not find the support of a good pastor. Bernard J. Wermers is good, but De Neve believes that he should be placed in a large congregation locally. He thinks young students should be recruited from the middle class. Thomas Rafter and James Wheeler are doing well. De Neve has given Michael O'Donavan to another bishop. Fathers Dumont, Van Kerckhove, Pulsers, and Russell are well. There is as yet no word of Maeshielt. :: III-2-k A.L.S. French 3pp. 8vo. 16