Flaget does not know why their correspondance has ceased, but if he is the cause he is without malice, but Brute's response has taken away any cause of ill-feeling as his letters have always done Father Guy Ignatius Chabrat, the first fruit of his episcopacy bears this letter and Brute can ask him many questions about affairs in Kentucky for which Brute is to give him some letters of introduction to some of his friends. Flaget asks if it true that Brute has left the Sulpicians. He heard this but he does not understand this from Father John Dubois nor from the Sulpicians. He asks Brute to enlighten him. Some have told him of the annoyances they have had to endure at Emmitsburgh and finally of the capitulation in which Father John Dubois was left in charge of the field. This is a very great evil that the priests and brothers misunderstand. It is with pleasure that he learns that the seminary and the college are flourishing. He wishes them courage and perserverance. P.S. He sends his regards to Dubois. He asks that Brute give an account of the Masses acquitted for them. Bishops Jean David says it is 200 but Flaget does not think it is only a hundred. :: II-2-o - A.L.S. - French - 3pp. 4to. 4