Odin, C.M., John Mary, Archbishop of, New Orleans, Louisiana, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1868 April 1

Purcell's letter of March 26 and the draft for $4344.43 have been received. Odin is sending the whole amount to Bishop Claude Mary Dubuis of Galveston, for he is in great need. The convent at Brownsville was destroyed last year by a hurricane; he is trying to rebuild. Father Cornelius Francis Smarius, S.J. and Father Florentin J. Boudreaux, S.J. have given a mission in the church of the Immaculate Conception. The Redemptorists closed a mission in Baton Rouge on Sunday; Odin confirmed 268. Father P. Reculon, S.M . is preaching Lent in the Cathedral drawing an immense crowd of Creoles. :: II-5-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.