Kelly, Sister Eulalia, Little Rock, Arkansas, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1845 March 8

Yesterday they received from Father Joseph RichardBole a parcel of presents accompanied with a letter entreating them to continue communication with him. From a sense of propriety, they have closed all communication with one who has robbed them. If justice were done, he would be in their debt for over $3000. He has encouraged them to disobey their Bishop and other Superiors. In his last letter he tells them "not to fear for to use the expression of the Bishop of St. Louis and Father John Timon, they can do no more or say no more in Arkansas than they did against me." In the same letter he says, "according to Father John Corry they made it a crime in Sister Eulalia to take a letter of the Bishop's from the Post Office but he tells her to have no scruple about it, for it was an act of charity." He wrote to Sister Eulalia to take out any letter for Bishop Andrew Byrne from Lyons and let him know about it. She did this through Doctor Marchand, his partner in trading. But his drage will not prevail on them to be silent. The letter is also signed by Sister M. Allodia Vessells and Sister Olympia Wimsatt :: V-5-c A.L.S. 4pp. 4to.