Dutton describes his living quarters at the leper colony. He believes he has found his vocation and thanks Hudson as well as Charles Warren Stoddard for putting him on the way. Father Joseph Damien DeVeuster and Dutton thank Hudson for his efforts to get tabernacles for their mission churches. He asks that Hudson send his copy to Mother Judith, the superior of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart at Honolulu. DeVeuster has made Dutton sacristan for the two churches. Besides this work he attends the sick. A number of people including two priests have asked for permission to join DeVeuster in his work among the lepers. They would probably have to join the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts, but since this society has no novitiate in Hawaii the Bishop arranged to give Dutton a three months' trial before assigning him to the leper colony. The Board of Health offered him a job with a salary and a house but this would have destroyed his aim. Dutton describes the alternations that are being made on the church. He is carrying on a campaign to exterminate the insects which are found in great numbers under the stones in the graveyard that is next to the church. What building supplies they need are brought in from San Francisco. Specifications for the type of tabernacle they need are given. He requests Hudson ask Stoddard to visit Father Francis X. Dutton in Cincinnati. :: X-3-c A.L.S. 13pp. 12mo.