Bishop William H. Elder, Natchez, Mississippi has asked Duggan to thank McMaster for his contribution of $125. The fever has decreased in the territory and seems to be decreasing daily yet there are many sick who imprudently returned after the first frost. The demands of the Bishop are very frequent and since the Howards seem to be winding up their affairs there, the Bishop's burden will not lighten. The misery which will follow the present scourge will last into the coming year but the charity of their brethren, which has sustained the territory so long, will not fail. P.S. Bishop William H. Elder, writing for himself informs McMaster of the death of Father John B. Mouton of Yazoo City, Miss. on the previous Tuesday. Two Sisters of Nazareth have died there recently and a third is dangerously ill while the others are sick. According to the present indications of the weather, Elder believes the epidemic will soon be over. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12 mo.