Mégret, Father Anthony Désiré, Vermillionville, Louisiana, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1846 October 7

The business is completed since it has been signed by the majority and Mégret has begun at once to repair and enlarge the presbytery. He reminds Blanc of the urgent need of an assistant. The Sisters of our Lady of Mount Carmel are holding up under the competition of two other schools in the same locality, established about a month before them. They have 18 pupils and more promised who are detained by the fever. Their house will not be completed until toward the end of the year. It is hardly possible that Mother Théèse Chevrel, O. Carm. will come before then. The tower of the Visitandines lacks only a pole?. :: V-5-f A.L.S. French 3pp. 4to.