David does not know where he stands with Brute, since his memory suggests that he did not answer Brute's last letter. He has a gathering on his right shoulder that affected the whole arm. He is much improved now after a detailed treatment he describes. They have had a change of presidents and professor of physics at Bardstown and at Baltimore. They has a near revolt there because the students were very much attached to their president Father George Elder who was a bit too easy. Father Ignatius Reynolds his successor by his teaching and ability will reconcile them. They have 110 boarders the number of externs is not as great as last year because they have augmented the price of tuition. They are separate except in class. The school at Nazareth although finished is in full operation. They have only 36 boarders but can handle 150. They have hopes of liquidating the debt in two or three years. Then they will increase the number of orphans or poor girls who are already a tenth. He would like to bring the sisters to their vocation which is to teach the poor. He asks if Brute has seen the prospectus of Father Wheeler; they find it ridiculis that of Father de Cloriviere is simple and clear. Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget has taken up again the jubilee in the middle of September. The missionaries gave each congregation a week with ggreat success. The great preacher is Father Francis Patrick Kenrick who excells in so many things. He always encourges people to write their difficulties. He has these questions proposed by an interlocutor and his explanations silence the objections. He describes an exchange between Kenrick and a Presbyterian minister. He says he was like a big cat playing with a rat. There were 900 communions at St. Rose 250 confirmations, 300 communions at Lebanan, nearly 400 hundred at Holy Cross with confirmations in proportion. The Bishops continues 14 congregations have made the jubilee the Holy Father has extended the jubilee for three years and a great number of old sinners who had not confessed for 10,12,15 years made the jubilee. Many Protestants have been converted. Brute should see a notice of the jubilee in the Miscellany, also a notice the College and that of Nazareth. He does not have any answer to the questions concerning sex that Brute proposed in his before last letter. He would not allow such things not only for clergy but even for lay people. In twenty years he has not met the example proposed by Brute. :: II-3-o - A.L.S. - English - 2pp. 4to. 5