He acknowledges Murray's letter of June 5. He sends certain corrections for Murray's book—on page 341, Murray is not correct in saying "In 1840, with one companion, he started on his sublime mission." In 1841, Blanchet started alone, for the Rocky Mountains, spent two months among the Steelheads, baptized 600 of them, and returned to St. Louis; and, in 1841, he returned with two other fathers and founded the St. Mary's Mission. On page 343, Murray says "and in Oregon to bring the Yakamas and other tribes to cease hostilities." One pagan Indian had killed the agent of the reservation in 1853. In 1856, the volunteers burned down the whole mission of he Oblate Fathers. Father Peter de Smet S.J. was there for nothing. :: I-1-d A.L.S. op. 4to.