Flaget profits by the return of Thomas Hariss to greet Bruté. The poor child is not well after his trip to Kentucky and Flaget doubts that he will ever get better. He tried Flaget's seminary but it was not the place for him. They have been awaiting a long time the rules of the house of St. Joseph, Emmitsburg so that they can use them for the house at Nazareth which begins to take shape. It is on the same land a half mile from the seminary. There are six ladies with 3 or 4 students. All goes well up to the present and will go better if Fanny Jordan or Mrs. George are sent to them to guide the ship. Bruté should intercede for them. One of the sisters or both could join Clauzel to go by stage to Pittsburgh and there go on the Ohio to Louisville where he will go to get them. He has already written to the ladies of Baltimore for the cost of the trip. He asks Bruté to receive Clauzel for him and tell him that he must not listen to the old boy who tells him that Kentucky is a land that devours its people and inhabited by monsters. George Elder is sufficient proof of the contrary. Flaget dares to say that Clauzel will not repent crossing the Alleganies to live with him. On June 20 he gave minor orders to Derigaud and to a German and tonsure to Morety and a Kentuckian named Charles Cooms, a child of benediction. Father Stephen Theodore Badin has received a book "Reflexions sur l'etat de l'eglise en France pendant le 18eme siecle et sur sa situation actuelle," Paris 1808. He asks Bruté if the author is not his friend from St. Malo. :: II-3-n A.L.S. French 4pp. 8vo., 4