Boudinet, James Anthony Bishop of Amiens, Amiens, France, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1871 April 5

Boudinet thanks Purcell for his charitable aid. He does not have the same claim on Purcell as Bishop Doupanloup but his diocese has the greater same needs. They are still occupied by the enemy and there is ruin in their remaining. One important house in New York wished to give 3,800 barrels of flour to industrial centers and charged the president of their Chamber of Commerce to provide statistics for an equitable division. The result was that 700 sacks were sent to their city. At the present time one of his good priests has written admitting a personal loss of 2,000 francs. Boudinet thanks Purcell for having his letter published in the newspaper. He mentions the Paris revolt but says that there has been considerable devotion. The French have been more generous to the works of the church when they were prosperous and Amiens has done its part, sending 45,000 francs to Syria. Boudinet expresses his gratitude under the emotion felt even in Cincinnati that of heroic Christianity. Religion seems on trial in Paris and they await uneasily the issue of that horrible insurrection. :: II-5-e A.L.S. French 4pp. 12mo.