He acknowledges Bruté's letter. He has been slow to answer because of lack of time. He is now sick. He had asthma in November which became more severe at Easter time and was so bad that he nearly suffocated. David describes in some detail the sickness and the medicines he took for it. If the medicines do not work a bleeding will be used. The sickness wa brought on by the use of his lungs in the Holy Week services, which they carried out fully. Father Joseph Rosati took charge of the ceremonies and also his part of the singing but he failed. They had the agony on good Friday from one to four. Father Felix de Andreis was in charge of it. David had announced it on Palm Sunday but the others did not know enough English. David spoke 9 times a quarter of an hour each time. The Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget presided each day. He describes the ceremonies of the week in detail. Father De Andreis left Saturday to care for the congregation of the Bishop. He turned his congregation to tears in his preaching. He continues to hold a mission at St. Joseph's near Bardstown. He has preached 15 days, hearing confessions and visiting the sick, etc. He will preach there next Sunday. Father Rosati preaches at one of the congregations. He preached twice in the seminary and is now with Father Guy Ignatius Chabrat at Vincennes. He also helps at St. Michael's and at Louisville. He hopes that Father Caretti and Father Ferrari will soon be able to preach. He found few mistakes in English in Father Caretti's sermons. Father Aquaroni is behind them since he lost the first month of the English class. The younger members also do well. Leo Deys already knows English but made many mistakes. Joseph Tichitoli was better. Father Francis X. Dahman was the best. Costo Gonzales is the hardest problem. The work on the cathedral under John Rogers progresses briskly. His plan is not grand but was adopted for want of a better one. Godfroy would have done better. Rogers' plan without being better will be suitable for this country. He gives the details of the cathedral. Their chapel is getting completed. Miller had made a tabernacle and an altar. Father William Dubourg has brought a portrait of St. Thomas. They hope for candlesticks for the altar. Moretti has made a set of drawers for the vestments. They do not yet have a throne. Their new seminary is finished and they hope to move there in a month or two. they have a good overseer who keeps the plantation in good condition. They plan to bring in youngsters who though not seminarians would be good Christians. they would free them from a bad group of Negroes who are causing trouble. David then discusses the problem of the Sulpicians since he does not feel that St. Sulpice can be recruited there. He and Chabrat were given to the Bishop by Father Emery. David doubts that the Bishop will allow his subjects to be Sulpicians at the risk of losing them. They would become missionaries as in Canada or seminary workers as in Baltimore. David has a median plan which he will propose to Paris. They should not have congregations outside the seminary but conduct missions without being attached to any one as the Lazarists and the community of St. Clement at Nantes. They have four who want to be Sulpicians. He asks Bruté to take up this question and not decide for the central government at Baltimore without weighing the whole problem. He himself does not think he is long for this work. As to going to Philadelphia as Bishop, that is physically impossible. He discusses the case of poor Millet who pretends to join Bruté and has applied to Bishop William Dubourg. David thinks he is ill. He sends his regards to all of Bruté's confreres, particularly Chevigne and Vespres who he understands is still with Bruté, He fears that the medicine sent is lost. He asks that other be sent by McGuire. :: II-3-n A.L.S. French 4pp. folio, 13