It has been so long since David heard from Bruté that he thought he had gone to Martinique. He presumes that the letter will find him at Emmitsburg. St. Thomas progresses: Father Peter Shaeffer is ordained priest, Desrigauds, subdeacon and three received tonsure, Robert Abell, John Mitchell and Ignatius Reynolds. Reynolds now studies Virgil and Sallust. There are 5 students in these classics. Shaeffer continues the tract on marriage, Desrigauds that of de ecclesia. Gras with another prepared for tonsure. Vincent Badin advances a bit, solidly. They have lost one who was zealous but David was pleased to see him go. He was replaced by a school teacher in the neighborhood who had sought admission but whom David had refused for more than a year. This keeps their number at twelve, all they can support. They do not have only consolation, but Father Guy Ignatius Chabrat is a great consolation. Kentucky needs missionaries and David needs some one to share his tasks. He hopes that their chapel of St. Thomas will be under roof by next August. It will be the cathedral for these years. They are forming a society for which St. Thomas will be the mother mission with the Bishop as superior, where they come for retreat and in their old age. The missionaries will go out two and two, a young man with an older one. They have 7 sisters at Nazareth who have set up a little school. It seems that Father Jean Dubois has finally agreed to send them some sisters, but he complains in his letter that David has not formed them into a society and given them rules. David has always asked for the rules but not for sisters if they would be obstacles to what they want to do. David has written to Dubois and Sister Kitty agreeing that they will be subject to the Sisters at St. Joseph but insisting that the superior be not called sister servant which he regards as inappropriate for the boarders. In their country that means a slave. David has asked that they form the sisters for Kentucky but that the Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget name the superior. There will be a modification of the rules to suit the surroundings. Sister Kitty says she will wait for David to send some one for her, but David finds this difficult to do. Dubois can find some Catholic family emigrating to Kentucky to bring her. Father Jean Tessier who has the bishop's money can pay. David has not yet received the rule. They will probably come by someone from Baltimore or by Father Edward Fenwick. David ends the letter to get it to the post by the young reverend. :: II-3-n A.L.S. French 4pp. 4to., 7