Fitzpatrick, Father Patrick, Mountrath, Ireland, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1844 August 6

Fitzpatrick writes at the request of a parishioner and friend in this part of the diocese of Leighlin in consequence of the death of his son, John Horan . The son was in trade in Dublin but, anxious to see his brother, since dead, who had settled in Indiana, he succeeded in gaining an engagement with a Mr. Landon of Bazzar Street in New Orleans. Pat Gohen recently returned and wrote the father Patrick Horan that he had heard from a Thomas Delany that his son John died of yellow fever in October. Fitzpatrick asks Blanc to forward any information he can. P.S. Bishop Haly is their bishop of the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. Folded in the letter is a slip of paper on which is written: John Herin, John Horan, or Moran; admitted November 6, Dead November 12, Yellow fever. :: V-5-b A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.