Hailandière, Bishop Celestin de la, Vincennes, Indiana, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1843 November 25

Hailandière hastens to give the information asked about Mr. Tumoine . He knows little about him. He is said to have done well in humanities in France. However he did not finish and had to study at Vincennes. Hailandière does not know his dispositions. He would probably have been received into Hailandière's seminary if he had persisted but he is perhaps too dissatisfied with the Eudists; he will be better with Blanc. Blanc is truly severely tried. Hailandière does not doubt that the issue will be in Blanc's favor. He congratulates Blanc on having declared his priests at St. Louis Cathedral independent of the trustees. To separate the question of money and the spiritual is to place himself on ground where defense is easy. Hailandière would not withdraw the priests; he would leave them there until they were chased out. Then the odium would fall on those who chased them out. Hailandière dismissed the Sisters of Charity ; he does not regret it. The latest Superior was incapable. He called in the Sisters of Providence ; he has just installed them in a house he just bought on Market Street. He will use their vacated house for the seminary. He has 20 students there now. All are waiting for the Vincentians . Blanc is to give the few lines on the other page to Father Joseph Kundeck who, he supposes, is at New Orleans. A.L.S. French On the same paper: