Beauprez, Father Peter Francis, Pointe Coupée, Louisiana, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1844 August 8

Beauprez received Blanc's letter from which he learned that his own had neither signature nor closing. He had left it unfinished because he was trying to remember to ask permission to erect the stations of the cross in the chapel of Fausse Rivière . Last winter Beauprez directed all his efforts to having the law for the celebration of marriages amended; it seems that almost all the other priests have done nothing; he will speak to them again. Last spring Beauprez saw the candlesticks Mr. Bonmot offered for $150. He believes they are too small. In order to build a chapel at Bayou Sarah, Mr. Hall should give back the money from the subscription and take back his land. Beauprez thinks that it was the Catholics of Bayou Sarah who gave the money Hall has now. P.S. Why does Father Stephen Rousselon not send Beauprez the Annales of the Propagation of the Faith; he never fails to send them to his great favorite, Mr. Binaud :: V-5-b A.L.S. French 3pp. 4to.