Connelly, Pierce, Gracemere, Louisiana, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1841 October 9

Connelly thanks Blanc for his letter with all its news of new Bishops and the Jesuit Fathers. He also thanks him for inducing Mr. Daron to act as agent for the Messrs. Casserly for the Dublin Review. Connelly does not agree in its political views but it is the principal organ of Catholicity in the English language. Connelly will have The Tablet sent to Blanc. Bishop John Baptist Purcell, with all his Irish predilections, thinks it one of the best edited papers in the world. They have organized their little St. Charles library and named the Bishop and the pastor of St. Charles the patrons. If America would only give Bishops and clergy to rival the ones France and Ireland has sent, the divided labors would leave leisure for all things profitable. Dear holy Bishop Joseph Rosati! Connelly hears his mission is a sad and laborious one. Nearly all the religious have made their retreat; Cornelia Peacock Connelly took Adeline and the baby along with the servant to the Convent and went regularly through the ten days. The day after she came out Pierce began with Father Theodore de Theux, S.J. and the English half of the fathers and brothers at the College. So Blanc sees that they are quite as much at liberty as if they had lost none of their household. :: V-4-l A.L.S. 4pp. 4to.