David and Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget are pleased to hear the news about Mr. Harent. 55 years is an advanced age but not for Harent who is much advanced in wisdom. They mad their retreat on the evening of Septuagesima to Monday after Sexagesima after which they renewed their vows before the Bishop. David began his classes eight days ago. He does not have much hope for Buchetti. If they had listened to Father Urbain Guillet they would have sent him away a long time ago. The others of his students give satisfaction. Their number increases and they have built a house 24 by 20 for a dormitory and study room. They are now building a chapel of stones or bricks. They have also an interesting congregation but the room they use for a chapel is too small. The Bishop is anxious to come and live with them and they look forward to that also. They plan a garden and Desrigauds is marking it out. David outlines their day from rising at 5 until evening. Sunday is different. Two receive every week, the others every fortnight. He outlines also the ceremonies of Sunday. David goes once a month to Bardstown to the home of Mr. Saunders and once a month to visit another friend twelve miles away, who has given him the horse on which he travels. In December he gave Communion to 7 of this man's Negroes and to one of their daughters. The problem of the cathedral goes slowly, especially because of the negligence of Father Stephen Theodore Badin who built two churches in Louisville and Lexington instead of the cathedral. Badin irritates the Bishop who is very sensitive. The people seemed well disposed towards the idea. Bruté speaks of an earthquake at Baltimore. They feel many of them in Kentucky. They have heard of the damages on the banks of the Mississippi and in Carolina. Bruté is not to be disturbed about the books. He sends his regards to his friends especially Pasquier, Chevigny, Castelli and the seminarians. :: II-3-n A.L.S. French 4pp. 4to., 5