Mr. Elder already has two letters to Bruté and since he will not leave before Sunday he now adds a third. He now tells him where they are and about their daughters. The seminary continues as it can. Moretti is not strong. Buchette has been added and they have some postulants to the future seminary. He told in the previous letter that Thomas Howard had left them a plantation of nearly 400 acres, half to them and half to the widow, three or four miles from Bardstown. The widow has come to offer the other half to Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, asking only for a house and a small subsistence for the rest of her days. They plan to go there in the fall, if they can get the money to build an addition to the house. There will be need also of a chapel since the people around there will make up a small congregation. They need five or six hundred dollars, but they lack money. Father Stephen Theodore Badin says God will provide. Last Saturday after a funeral the members of the congregation gathered to discuss the subscription for building the cathedral. Bruté will laugh at the idea of a cathedral in Kentucky, but they are thinking of one 120 feet by 70 of stone and the Protestants are as eager as the Catholics. Money is rare in Kentucky but the subscription is in cash or trade. Some promise work. He asks for the sisters' prayers for the seminary, the cathedral and the sisters. David is pleased that the Sisters have gone to Bruté for direction. He speaks of a negress Henrietta, a slave of a Catholic who does not practice his religion. He recommends to Bruté George Stamp, Betsy Wheller, the two brothers Wheller, the shoemaker and the tailor. The woman who has married a Lutheran is Mrs. Duffy. The one who has been sick for 7 weeks is Mrs. Schreiber, a convert widow, she has two sisters whom David hoped to convert if he had remained in Baltimore. There are two whites, Abraham and John, and he does not know which addressed Bruté. Madame Welsh is an excellent lady whose husband is not a Catholic. The housekeeper of Mr. Brocon, named Connell, is a fine lady. David is pleased that Madame Elder has chosen Bruté as her confessor. Wheeler is a good man. He heard him in the sacristy after Mass because he is deaf. He hopes that Bruté will give them good inspirations. He goes now with the Bishop to Bardstown. :: II-3-n A.L.S. French 4pp. 4to., 5