Corcelle Roederer, Baroness de, Paris, France?, to Monsignor Robert Seton, Madison, New Jersey, 1867 November 29

They are much disturbed by the latest news which her daughter has received. Her daughter has persuaded her that her sentiments would add weight to the reasons she has given Seton to try to change his intolerable position. The first thing to do is, at the beginning of winter, to be dispensed from night calls and mass before dawn. If those measures prove satisfactory she sees only one remedy, that is, to take advantage of the boredom for his sanctification and gain merit. She and her children have only one conviction, the one her daughter talked to Seton about. :: II-1-a A.L.S. French 2pp. 16mo.