Belan, Judge Joseph, | to Father Ernest Audran, Jeffersonville, Indiana, 1894 July 26

He is glad to know that Audran is among the living. Audran's firm hand and his French style show he retains his powers in spite of his seventy-one years. He discusses his own and his wife's sickness. All that his uncle Joseph de la Hailandiere had was disposed of after his death. He Belan asked the executors and heirs for pictures but received none. The portrait in oil of Bishop de la Hailandiere fell into the hands of M. De la Bigne Villeneuve who married Madame de la Pallu. Audran should therefore address him for he Belan has made no progress with him. Father A. N. de la Fosse could send a large photograph. As to France, war or revolution, the right of property seems doomed to disappear as the State wishes to seize everything. :: XI-1-l A.L.S. (Enclosure French) 9pp.