Having heard from Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget that Bruté is going to France Chabrat is asking him a favor. Since he is too busy to write and Bruté may have already started he asks that he visit his parents and tell them about his present situation and of his good health. This will console them and let them know where to direct their letters which Bruté will bring from Europe. He has not heard from his parents for two years. He is anxious to hear from them. They may be the occasion of drawing some ecclesiastics to the country. He has a brother a priest who was made a priest before him although he had been three years at sea. He has two young brothers who also had inclinations to become priests. He has an uncle 3 miles from Bordeaux who is quite wealthy and might send Chabrat some things which could be of use to him and his flock. His name is Chabrat or M. de Clement. He dreads Bruté's going into France lest they keep him. He begs Bruté to take care that this does not happen. In any case he asks that Bruté remember him in his wild country and the destitute church in Kentucky. Since beginning to write he has received a letter from one of his former students Mr. Chanson, at whose father's house he boarded at St. Flour, who says he is coming to join Chabrat. He started from France April, 1814, went to London where he stayed 2 months with exiles and then embarked for Quebec, then Montreal and Baltimore for Kentucky., P.S. He asks Bruté to get him a set of the lives of the Saints in English or in French, the Catechism of the people of the City and the Country in 4 volumes. He wants also some portraits of the Blessed Virgin. He asks also for the works of St. Francis de Sales and St. Theresa. He will pay at the first opportunity or have Father John Tessier give the money. He sends his regards to Deidier, Chance and others. :: II-3-n A.L.S. P.S. in French 4pp. 4to., 2