Bazin, Father John Stephen, Spring-Hill, Alabama, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1840 July 27

Bazin will take the 25 copies of the Cathollic Family Library if Blanc can give him credit for two months. Bazin finds new debts on all sides which Bishop Michael Portier never told him about and no receipts to pay them. He thinks Portier played the Yankee in order not to discourage Bazin. They know nothing exact about Father Francis Martinet. Bazin received a letter addressed to the Bishop written partly at sea and partly at Nantes; his health seems to be the same. The college owes Martinet more than $400 but Bazin fears Portier made no arrangements about it. What has become of Father Ferdinand Dominic Bach; they have several letters for him. Blanc is to console himself; they also are in a miserable situation. They are only 8 priests for two immense states. P.S. At the moment of sealing this a letter arrived from Mobile from their bishop. It is dated June 26, London. The bishop leaves on the 29th for Lyon by the end of August. He announces that the Grand Duke Louis Rossat was named Bishop of Gap. Also the bishop said he would pay all the accounts and especially Martinet's. :: V-4-k A.L.S. French 4pp. 4to.