David yields to remorse of conscience for not answering Brute's many letters. He could plead bad health. He lists all the work he does but admits that he has been negligent. They continue poorly. The college is growing but the discipline is not marvelous. Father George Elder shows an indulgence that pains his coworkers. The spiritual is neglected and there is some corruption among their Louisianans. Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget has finally obtained the jesuits from France, 3 priests and one brother of whom two go to Louisiana and two Fathers Peter Chazelle and Nicholas Petit go to Bardstown. The establishment is amidst great difficulties. Father William Byrnes whom Brute knows has been vice president in Elder's college and had general disappoved of their plans. He is tired of the college and returns to his own school of which he has not yet given up the presidency and for which he has erected a fine building which he proposes to give to the Jesuits for their college with the plantation of 310 acres. He will also work for a year or 18 months after which he will join his family at Jackson's Purchase at the junction of the Ohio and the Tennessee with the intention of starting another establishment. Chazell is learning English while teaching French. His is a good man and David sees grand things ahead for him. Byrnes house is ready for him as is also the plantation. It will be the novitiate and boarding school of the group. They elected a new mother in August. She is Sister Angela Spink, the sister of James Spink who studied at Georgetown and Baltimore. She is well loved. The community grows; they have 40 at the motherhouse, 8 at the college, 3 at the school of Bethlehem at Bardstown, 8 at Union Kentucky, 6 at Scott, 5 at Vincennes, 3 at Fairfield. As the debts are nearly paid at Nazareth they are going to increase the number of orphans and poor children and have the sisters enter again on their vocations. They need waitresses but it is difficult to train them. The number of boarders at Nazareth is past 60. P.S. He forgot to say that Mr. Hatch whom Brute thought sick is not sick according to Father Simon LaLamiere. :: II-3-o - A.L.S. - French - 2pp. 4to. 5