Flaget is ashamed to write on the envelope but he hopes that he will do for Madame Fourrier what he has done for the Archbishop of Bordeaux, from whom he has a response. That prelate has a lamentable tale of his diocese. What Bruté tells him of Father, Antoine Duclaux, astonishes him because he blows hot and cold out of the same mouth. Flaget has submitted in advance to what he decides about his seminary. He followed his conscience in holding on to Father Jean David and Guy Ignatius Chabrat on the belief that Father Emery did not give them merely to begin the work but to bring it to perfection. David has been suffering from rheumatism and has been unable to work. Father Felix D'Andreis has been acting as teacher of theology. The Italians are beginning to fear that Bishop Louis William DuBourg will not come that spring, a fear that Flaget shares. If Father Charles Nerinckx arrives with some companions he is to ask Tessier and Moranville to give them hospitality. The cathedral is already 5 or 6 feet above the ground and paid for so far. :: II-3-n A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to., 6