Since Brute is going to disembark at Bordeaux Richard asks that he call on his brother a clerk there at bureau des classes a Saintes. Brute will give him the letter he sends and also for an answer. He asks that Brute obtain for him or have sent to New York in Care of Bishop John Conely John Connolly. He lists a whole page and a half of articles and books. He asks him to show the list to Father Duclaux, Father Garnier and especially to Father Stephen Theodore Badin to held him fill it and perhaps surpass it. If he cannot obtain proper aid he will advance to Baltimore or to New York. The sum of $200 and if that is not enough it is to be retrenched leaving out the chalice the ciborium, the censer and even the ostensorium. From his brother he hopes that Brute will obtain two barrels of wine, one for Brute and the other for Richard to be sent to New York and choose for him an agent in Paris from among the clergy of Paris, Bordeaux, or Havre De Grace to take care of the poor church and particularly of the poor Indians of Michigan. At Bordeaux he should visit Madame Fournier, sister of Bishop DuBourg. If she is rich she may send some gifts for the poor Indians of Michigan. He is to speak of him to the Archbishop of Bordeaux and the Bishop of De Saintes. He wishes Brute a safe voyage. He tells him on the cover to read this letter at Havre de Grace, Paris, at Saintes and Bordeaux. :: II-3-o - A.S.L. - French