David has received Brute's letter of April 16. Father George Elder, the President had not seen the college yet he boasts to Father Jean Dubois. They will have soon 56 boarders from New Orleans, nearly all Catholics. From a letter from St. Joseph in January he heard that Sister Angela was near death and had a letter from her saying that she was going into comsumption. She has an angel. David has lost five of the Sisters of Charity last year. The letter continues June 9. The feasts obligations that succeed each other are the cause. Their building grows, 120 feet long and 40 wide. One wing already built houses the old college and is 60 feet long. The other is more than a hundred and houses the kitchen, the meat house and other like needs and rooms for other purposes for the sisters and a piazza for use in the winter, and rooms for various purposes which he enumerates. The inspiration of all this is Father Martial who is very devoted to us. Fouche and Evremond are his disciples and good men. David is still professor of English but has only one student Apollinaris Sherman from Rhodes who is a subdeacon in theology. June 25, his feast day has come and he had not finished his letter. Yesterday he celebrated solemly in the presence of the Bishop, priests and seminarians and blessed the chapel at Nazareth. It is brick 55 feet long and 30 feet wide with a sacristy 12 feet square. David described the services. A Jew and his wife and little girl were there. The Mother expressed a desire to be Catholic. The mother told the Mother of the Sisters that she wished the daughter to be raised a Catholic because of the father but wanted the girl to make the decision herself. They plan to add to the chapel 15 feet of wall which would provide two rooms below and sleeping rooms above, while they are waiting to build a new house for the Sisters. He dedicated the chapel to St. Vincent de Paul. He lists several paintings he desires. June 27, he speaks of his sicjnesses. Because of them he is exempt from singing and teaching. It is necessary that he be superior of the seminary and teach the seminarians, and that he be superior and confessor to the Sisters and there are always novices to instruct. He also sings the mass, since he is the director of the choir. He hopes to die before the Bishop because of his incapacity as bishop. He sends his regards to Father Dubois and Hickey and to Mother Rose. :: II-3-o - A.L.S. - French - 3pp.6