David is ashamed that he has received two or three of Brute's letters without any response. A poor head always more or less in pain is also forgetful, but the heart has always been full of friendship and gratitude for the news Brute sends. He is unhappy at the affaire of Philadelphia. He has seen in a paper of that city an account of an assembly of laymen in favor of Father William Harold who acts according to the principles of the Hoganites among these signatures he recognises some names such as Carey and Mead. David has written a letter to Harold in which he gave him some fraternal advice about their pretended right to name the pastor. He urged Harold to make a reconsiliation with the bishop. If he cannot get himself out of the affair he should apply to Rome and avoid a situation that would be rejected by Rome. From what Bishop John England of Charleston wrote Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget there is little hope of getting Harold out of the affair. Bishop Henry Conwell thinks that we are opposed to him that they are a french faction. David thinks Conwell does not know that it is his compatroit Father Francis Patrick Kenrick who sent his concordat to the Propaganda. He is inclined to take the side of the Bishops but the matters are so confused he is not certain. David thinks there must be a meeting of the bishops. The need of each bishop in his own diocese is the chief obstacle to that he knows that Bishop Flaget wants to have a meeting at Pittsburgh. Of the 10 bishops whom he names, five could come by water. He thinks the bishops of Boston and New York could also come since they could come by canal and down the Allegheny. The college does not cease to grow with 105 boarders and nearly fifty externes. The agent at New Orleans will have for them $18,000 or $20,000. Their agent Hazelton will go in November for six months to collect this sum. The agent Comagere has delayed $5,000 which he has received from parents and which he has used Hazelton has finally got this money in small parcels and then only did they learn that Comagere has had a complete bankruptcy. He notes that by June 15 he has not finished the letter. He does not have ideas to finish it. Yesterday he preached on the controversy over the real presence in the cathedral since they will not have a procession this year and probably no more because of the difficulty of transporting four miles the whole group. Brute should have received from Baltimore the controversies of Saint Francis de Sales which he sent by one of their merchants with a religious book for Mother Rose. They were in the hands of Mr. A. Elder. He has asked Father Martial to get the complete edtion of that saints works. The seminary goes as usual. The College is a great obstacle for rest. There are 13 theologians. He is alone at the seminary as in 1811. Where are all the priests he has made? Father Evremont takes charge the two days he has to spend at Nazareth. Since it is impossible to find a superior of the seminary and a confessor for the religious he has to do both. Father Boone the old confessor of Bishop Flaget has written that he has found two priests who want to come. If they come he will teach them English and then he can have some rest. His head is sometimes better but his class bothers him. He is better under the directions of Rev. Dr. Celini. He lists the various medicines that he uses. He eats as little as possible, he is in his 66th year. :: II-3-o - A.L.S. - French - 3pp.