Blanc, Bishop Anthony, New Orleans, Louisiana, to Father Matthew Bernard Anduze, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1842 October 26

Blanc knows how painful it must be for a priest ordained 22 years to see the feasts pass without taking part as a priest. But whose fault is it? If Anduze rereads Blanc's letters and recalls the conversation he had with Bishop Portier on his last visit to Notre Dame he will be forced to agree that Blanc could expect anything but a pompous display of all the services he pretends to have rendered to religion. It is not simply the publication of the letter which was the determining factor in withdrawing his faculties but his conduct since then. Anduze renounced the faculties left to him by returning to New Orleans and accepting from the trustees the office of supervisor of a school for little girls with the modest salary of $133 a month. There was a time when Anduze's conscience would have reproached him. Copy French