Flaget renews his affection for Bruté as a very important thing in their sojourn in this life. He is happy to learn from Bruté about the reestablishment of the Jesuits as he has been praying for that for nearly two years. He wishes next for the reunion of the Greek and Latin Churches, to the embarrassment of the Protestants who are discomforted by the triumphant return of the Pope. They are ready to receive the truth if it were announced with sweetness. He was consoled in his latest visitation despite the fatigues he endured. He will not offer any reflections on Bruté's trip to France, a country that has suffered for twenty-five years. He owes countless letters to France but cannot find time to write them. But not knowing the time of Bruté's departure he will prepare a memorandum to take the place of this correspondence. 1. He sends his respects to Father Anthony Duclaux and to Father Anthony Garnier. They should have interest in St. Thomas because the same reason for interest in the Baltimore seminary holds for that of St. Thomas. 2. He has not paid the full price for the breviaries and missals from Rugard of Lyons. He has written to Garnier to pay this. If his letter has not arrived Bruté will please explain his situation. He asks also for some paintings for the chapels since Flaget knows that he has inherited a great collection from Father Emery. 3. The French people in his diocese number more than 15,000 and for a territory of 300,000 miles he has only 3 priest and yet Father Jean Tessier threatens to take away Father Gabriel richard, the most active. Of the others, one is 66 years of age and the other worn out. Bruté can understand his need and if some youths who have finished their studies or part of them can find the means to come they would be received into his seminary. More than 40 nations of Indians who know nothing of religion are in his diocese and could feed on the zeal of a new Francis Xavier. From the Missouri to the Columbia that flows to the Pacific there are more than a thousand nations of savages. Finally Bruté is to remind his brother in Billom that he is still alive. He has received one letter two years ago from a nephew who with a friend desired to join him as missionaries. He is to tell his brother to encourage them. If Bruté meets Guilleman, a man in Paris well known to Garnier, he is to tell him that he is an answer from Flaget. On the envelope in the hand of Father Jean David is a letter from St. Thomas Seminary to Father Pierre Babade that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are in the parish of St. Genevieve. The richest parishioners are very good, but some bad citizens in the eyes of God have come to see their error and to be reconciled. People who had lived in sin came for repentance and to make peace with God. People of the female sex have given great consolation and after a lecture on the things done by the first Christians they changed the ear pendants into crosses. He blessed 60 in the space of 8 days. He asks Babade to thank God for the good things of which he has been the agent. :: II-3-n A.L.S. French 4pp. 4to., 4