David expresses his pleasure in reading Bruté's letter, especially with his peculiar style. David promises to try to tell of their experiences as well as he can. They eat three times and frugally and even have whiskey, although they do not drink it. He has a happy community of eight children who look to him as their father. They confess to him and receive Communion once every eight days. Buchetty has left to everyone's satisfaction. He left Palm Sunday at 7:30 in the evening. Their cabin improves with Moretti working on it. Desrigauds cultivates the garden. David has purchased 7,000 feet of lumber for the brick chapel which will be 60 by 26 or 30. The wheat promises a good harvest. They have celebrated Holy Week as best they could with a large congregation, also the Annunciation. Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget could not bless the oils because he did not have the oil. They had the ceremonies they could for Easter. David is preparing a choir from the young people of the parish. He describes the decoration of the church for the feast. He continues April 18. They are completing the cabin, erecting door beams and filling the cracks with mud and whitewashing. They have had three days of rain with thunder and lightening which set fire to a tree, and frightened their horses. Having to take refuge in the home of Protestant neighbors there are evidences of a possible conversion. The child they thought possessed is still very sick. She becomes violent at the approach of blessed objects but then becomes quiet. They will consult the best physicians of Bardstown before trying an exorcism. April 22. There is little new. The Bishop made the retreat in peace. He is pleased at the advance of his seminary. David hopes to hear good news from Bruté. They need two or three new missionaries and the Bishop would like a good superior for his seminary so he could go on the circuits of the Bishop. There is little chance that he will accompany the Bishop to Baltimore, because the seminary is too important. :: II-3-n A.L.S. French 4pp. 4to., 2