The writer has just received a letter from the Vicar, with the news that Father Francis intends to arrange in St. Louis, and the writer thanks Father Francis for his help and his prayers, as well as the prayers he solicited of the Fathers and Brothers. The writer's missionary labors resemble those of the Apostles, abounding in dangers and hardships on the rivers and in the forests. Six weeks are required for a journey to all the missions and stations, the fathers interchanging and relieving each other. They remain only a few days at each of the larger places, to instruct the converts and administer the Sacraments, which all are anxious to receive. The length of such a missionary journey is about 500 miles. In winter and spring the entire journey is made on foot; in summer it is made in part by canoe—which is carried along by the missionary and his two Indian companions. The missionary sleeps in the open, on pine boughs, and in the morning says Mass, with a log or stump as altar and his two companions as clerks. But for all his troubles he is abundantly repaid by the knowledge that he is rescuing immortal souls. In the James Alphonsus McMaster collection. :: I-2-c L.incomplete 2pp. 8vo.