Hughes, Bishop John, New York, New York, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1844 December 15

Blanc's letter of May 15 is just drawn out from the parcel of unanswered letters which the unsettled condition of things obliged him to put in safe keeping during the last summer. He has made the most prudent but safe use of the information contained in the letter. Hughes has had not the least complaint with regard to Mr. Loss ? but is uneasy because he is 300 miles from him. The other is a servant, a carpenter with the Ladies of the Sacred Heart, brought to this country by the late Madame Elizabeth Gallitzin . Hughes has been waiting for the seminarian Blanc promised them from Havre; he will receive him most cheerfully regretting only that he will not be able to accommodate him as well as he can in a year from now when the new building is completed. Hughes congratulates Blanc on the issue of the contest with the trustees of St. Louis Cathedral . Hughes's men at Buffalo surrendered but not until he had built another church. Bishop Celestin De la Hailandiere passed through New York on his way to Rome. He was well and in tolerably good spirits. The prospect for religion is much more favorable; that ferocious spirit of persecution under the name of "Nativism" is becoming less violent. Hughes has had an anxious time in this Babylon where the least accident might have produced the most fearful consequences. :: V-5-b A.L.S. 4pp. 4to.