Brodie, Daniel L., Dubuque, Iowa, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1847 April 1

Brodie asks Blanc to be a protector for an orphan. If his daughter, Margaret Brodie, arrives safely in New Orleans, she will hand Blanc a letter from Bishop Mathias Loras requesting Blanc to forward her to Messrs. Walsh and Company, St. Louis per steamboat. From the great scarcity of money here after the land sales and collections in aid of the Irish, Brodie's finances are limited and he is unable to send her a second remittance until next September. He asks Blanc to procure her a home with some religious lady or family who will act as mother and guardian. She has been an orphan since infancy without father, whose republican principles induced him to leave an immense property to the persecuting aristocracy of Ireland and Tory England. Some good girls are paid here $10 per month. P.S. On March 8 Brodie sent cash to Bishop John Hughes of New York. P.S. Brodie has lived with the Bishop of Dubuque nearly three years. :: V-5-g A.L.S. 3pp. 4to.