David thanks Bruté for his letter and thanks him for his efforts to maintain their seminary. He hopes that in Bruté's letter to France he will not cease to speak for them. As for himself he will continue in the work which he regards as a work of Providence. It is not himself that he seeks since he would be better off at Baltimore. But it is the fear of seeing the work of 4 years vanish and his work rendered useless, of seeing the 12 clerics of whom 7 are from Kentucky deprived of the hope of becoming priests and of seeing the religious life there destroyed that keeps him at his task. David has written to Father Jean Tessier his reasons and he repeats some of them here. David regards the seminary there as belonging to St. Sulpice and himself as superior of such a seminary. This is shown in he gift of the library without any expectation of a return. Father Ambrose Maréchal who has come since would upset all this and has asked Tessier to recall David to Baltimore. When Father Jacques Emery sent him to Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget Emery wrote to Father Francois Nagot he was supposed to return if Flaget did not establish a seminary within two years. David insists that the Holy Father when David was named to Philadelphia left him with Flaget because Flaget said he was necessary. He does not think he would do grand things in Baltimore. He has had his difficulties even in Kentucky but God has given him the grace to surmount them. David has written to the Holy Father explaining things and he hopes he will achieve with the Bishop the acceptance of their seminary. He has also written to Tessier telling him of the good will of the Fathers of Paris, especially Father Garnier. Their seminary church is finished and now they build a cathedral. They do not have definite news from Louisiana. If they go there there will be no longer a seminary in Kentucky. They would spend their time forming the savages of Missouri, but they will do what they are commanded. He thanks Bruté for the account of the death of Father Nagot. He has read it to the group. :: II-3-n A.L.S. French 4pp. 4to., 5