According to his heart he would write Brute often but he is guided by his head which Brute knows begins many things which it cannot finish. In his diocese he is in a labyrinth of temporal affairs. Father Scheifers, Peter Schaeffer speaking of the blessings that have come to the bishop both on Catholics and Protestants that the people in his congregations are so well disposed that they speak of building a chapel of brick and of building a monastery for 5 or 6 religious and in a third place of buying a plot for a residence for two priests. Father Guy Ignatius Chabrat came the day before. He has such a large area to cover that he cannot cover the half of it, yet Father Jean Tessier insists that he go to Baltimore. This has worried Chabrat and ha has fallen into a serious melancholy that hinders his work. Yet Flaget is sure that Chabrat's work is useful. Catholics and Protestants admire him and his work for the church in Louisville when the other sects would not dare to build. If Flaget had some one to take his place he would put him in his the seminary where he is needed. Flaget's household constitutions a little world. In one corner 3 or 4 workers cut stones for a horse mill which he needs 3 or 4 masons, 9 or 10 millwrights, 2 or 3 carpenters who prepare the roof of the mill and the floors of his new seminary, 4 or 5 plasters and all his young seminarians some of whom seek sand and other carry it to the roadway they have made themselves, some mix the morter and others carry ot and the domesics work all day and part of the night to prepare food for them. This can go on only six weeks or two months or the episcopal treasure will be exhaused. So far he has been able to escape debts and yet has the resources for 20 or 24 seminarians. His cathedral which he visited yesterday is now 22 feet high and the bricks for finishing it are made in two weeks for fifteen days all the mason work will be finished, the pillars and the materials for covering them are in place or ready and Mr. Rogers assures him that it will covered in the month of November. At the present time all the workers are paid but by Christmas they will have need of $3,000. God provides but Flaget would like Brute to supply some funds also. He has also asked Archbishop Ambrose Marechal for aid but he fears that the Archbishop has forgotten him, especially since he is planning his own basilica. He forgot to tell Brute of certain things brought by Father Charles Nerinckx. A knight of Nizen Province names Magallaon has sent him two boxes and two trunks which the costoms officier of New Orleans allowed to pass fot the poor bishop of Kentucky. They are full of books and church articles. He asks that Brute join him in thanking Providence. P.S. The letter enclosed no longer there is an appeal to Propaganda for what he needs for his diocese. Father Felix D'Andreis has encouraged him to make it and has translated it. Flaget asks for some information about Brute's college and seminary. Father Nerinckx has arrived bur Flaget has not yet seen him. He asks to be informed when the Bishop Louis William Dubourg arrives. P.S. He sends his regards to Elder. His studies he leaves to his superiors so long as he is fortified in rhetoric and logic because he destines him to teaching. It is time to ordain him subdeacon. Of he is instructed in French that will be useful. He sends the same good wishes to Chance. :: II-3-o - A.L.S. - French - 4pp. 4to. 5