David thinks that Bruté now enjoys the visit of Bishop Louis William DuBourg. Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget will start thursday, October 2, for St. Louis with Father Felix D'Andreis and Father Joseph Rosati to prepare for DuBourg. They are now building a horsemill. They thought they could make it for $600 but the costs are already over a thousand. It is nearly finished and will pay for itself in a few years. The old one may come in use if Bishop DuBourg leaves some of his clerics with them. They have 15 seminarians, counting Desrigauds and Moretti, who has become very fervent. The Bishop has two more who want to join them. They are having requiem services for Dorin about whom Duclaux has informed them and Father Ferrari, about whose death Bruté is to inform DuBourg. The brick work of the Cathedral continues. The collection of funds goes slowly but John Rogers advances money. They hope to have the Cathedral covered by Christmas, DuBourg will find many faults in it. He finds some himself. They will have two rooms below, one for a baptistry and another for a catechism room that can also be used for confessions. Oct. 3. The travelers started yesterday, after the rain stopped. David thanks Bruté for the life of Father Surin. He asks if Bruté has seen Hayden. Flaget will bring back D'Andreis and Rosati so that the Bishop can hold a synod with them and DuBourg on matters of discipline. Circumstances might not again allow the two bishops and their priests to meet together and perhaps prepare a pastoral to all the faithful of their dioceses. David believes they are on the vigil of a grand religious revolution in this country. Catholics are fervent, heretics are converted, the savage infidels seem drawn to the Gospel. He asks Bruté for books from which he can draw the subjects for the meditations of the seminarians. He mentions Challenor, Dubois, and Bishop Carroll. He wishes also the little breviary of which Bruté sent only the winter volume. They have learned by letter from New Orleans of the death of one of DuBourg's priests. Mr Maguire has passed by Louisville but did not come to see them. He asks for some things to be sent by Hayden letter damaged here. Father Tessier should send a statement of what he has for Flaget so that they can plan their demands. He asks Bruté for some other items page damaged. :: II-3-n A.L.S. French 4pp. 4to., 6