Herval, Father G., Havre, France, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1846 May 21

Herval asks Blanc to extend his kindness to the person bringing this letter. She is a teacher in a Catholic family of New Orleans, whose head, Mr. Landry, is a friend of Blanc. Their new archbishop has much zeal, a great simplicity, and great charity. On the back of the letter in Blanc's hand: Confirmed at Assumption Church, La Fourche, 65; St. Elizabeth, Paincourtville, 61; St. Joseph's Thibodeauxville?, 121. July 24, for? Donaldson, $56.75. $20 given to Father J. Masnou, C.M. ; more than $20 paid for Father Ogée? Oger. :: V-5-e A.L.S. French 3pp. 4to.