It was during the Paschal season, the harvest season for the priests and bishops, that Flaget received Bruté's letter. Apparently there are many sheaves but the final results will show a greater abundance of straw than grain. To all the burning pains of a laboring ministry, perhaps fruitless, are added the inexplicable contradictions and unexpected disappointments v.g. the instance of Maximilian Godefroi who failed to send the plan which he had offered so generously is an example. He is compelled to yield to the first one who comes with the certainty that he will erect an absurd and ridiculous structure. His position, though distressing as it might be, would be even more so if he had not tried on time to get the plan. Though Flaget is poor he would have offered this good man compensation, but he is so pretentious that his pride might easily be hurt. Godefroi had repeatedly expressed his happiness on having the occasion of helping his friend the Bishop of Bardstown and to offer God a monument as symbol of his devotion. In brief, godefroi, without explanation, has placed Flaget in a predicament; the latter foresees that before the end of the year he will have the disappointment of seeing erected an edifice which will perpetuate bad taste and vandalism in Kentucky and the surrounding country. He wants Bruté to tell Godefroi not to bother about the plans of the Cathedral and to thank him for the trouble that he has already taken. Another of Flaget's disappointments comes from Bruté's traveling companion, Mr. Millet. A letter of his addressed to Bishop William Louis Dubourg dated June 15, 1816 was found recently in the room of the Italians and was sent to Flaget by John Baptist David. After common excuses, Millet assures DuBourg that his purpose in coming to America was to be useful to the diocese and that in France he would have presented himself had he not heard that the Bishop was taking priests only. He had then received only minor orders. He admitted also that he was not physically able to stay at Flaget's seminary where half the time students are occupied with duties so heavy that no Frenchmen would stand, that the seminary is so poor that often the necessities are lacking, that more than thirty students finding life too hard have already left the seminary, that their dress was so quaint that he did *** not care to share them. Since writing this letter Millet has made a retreat and received the subdiaconate. Yet he told Flaget twenty times that he was satisfied. He has also made a fine tabernacle for the altar. Flaget asks why, if he has changed his mind he did not destroy the letter. He will have to resolve this problem. Father Joseph Rosati with Father Guy Ignatius Chabrat has gone for a visit to Vincennes where they will speak in french and English. On Easter Monday the Trappist Horloger who has been at Bardstown since the departure of Father Urbain drowned in the little river between the town and the seminary. He was with an apprentice who suffered the same fate. He is disturbed about the trouble about the bill of exchange sent to Father Jean Tessier. :: II-3-n A.L.S. French 4pp. 4to., 7