Grassi has nothing to say but feels that he should write, since Archbishop John Carroll used to say that etiquette suggests it. Father Anthony Kohlman has relapsed. This with other problems makes him look for help. He hears from Father Sewall of Stoneyhurst that one or two professors are coming to their assistance, and that the Father General has written to Father Stone that the general will ask permission of the Emperor to go to Rome. Sewall thinks there is little prospect of obtaining permission. There is great distress in England. Grassi asks Bruté to send him a prospectus of Emittsburg and of Montreal College for a gentleman who wants to send his boy away because he has been running home. Grassi has not heard from Father Vespre but hopes he is well. Father Stephen Dubuisson is about the same. Archbishop Leonard Neale is well, with about 35 nuns. He asks if there is any news of the missionaries in upper Louisiana. It has been a mild winter for them. A priest from Liege, Father D'Etese has improved so much in English as to be able to hear confessions. :: II-3-n A.L.S. 4pp. 4to., 5