Lorretta, S.C., Sister M., Donaldsonville, Louisiana, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1847 July 22

Lorretta wrote today to tell Mother that it would be useless to send Sister Gonzague, S.C. to teach music. Sister M. Margaret, S.C. says all there are pretty well advanced. Sister Clotilda knows how to do what she is for. It will take time and reflection before speaking of a steward; it might be the means of turning the Sisters out. Even if there was a steward Lorretta could not do without an intelligent assistant. The house is now in a bad way, if the tools are taken from her it must fall. Sister Regina Smith, S.C., with a book keeper, found it difficult; Lorretta who knows nothing must fill the place of both. Sister M. Margaret left yesterday; the Asylum Sisters will return as soon as the boat returns from the seashore. :: V-5-h A.L.S. 3pp. 4to.