Lucas, Father Peter, New Iberia?, Louisiana, to Father Louis Dufour, St. Martin, Attakapas, Louisiana, 1846 January 3

Yesterday Lucas received Dufour's insolent letter. For three years he has been in St. Martin parish and has had trouble only with Fathers Martin, Anthony Désiré Mégret and Dufour. Dufour says the LeBlanc family is astonished and afflicted. It is Dufour who is doing the underhanded work about the $50. Dufour says that Lucas asked this sum from Mrs. d'Autrive and would have asked it of Mrs. Neuville Declouet?. If Lucas had not held the funeral, Dufour would have been angry. He told them that he had held $3000 worth of funerals for nothing at St. Martin, and no longer wished to do so. According to the rules of the synod, Dufour owes Lucas half the fees for the funeral of Mrs. Derozin Broussard, of the Gaudrant ? child and a colored person. Dufour forbids Lucas his house; he is surprised he does not forbid him to come to St. Martinville. A.L.S. French :: V-5-e A.L. Incomplete, A.L.S. French 8pp. 4to. 12mo. 15