Chanche, Bishop John Joseph, Natchez, Mississippi, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1847 August 19

He received Blanc's letter enclosing two ten dollar bills and has disposed of them according to Blanc's intention. Chanche is sorry to learn that the fever is likely to be severe with Blanc this year; he trusts the mortality among priests will not be with Blanc as it is in Canada. He has received notice of six Sulpitians who have died, among them Father Richard and Father McRay from Lyons. Neither Father William A. Bleinkinsop nor Chanche have yet seen his yellow majesty. Chanche supposed Father Louis Stanislaus Buteux would prefer to be at Biloxi but Chanche has no notion of dispossessing Father Symphorian Guinand . He offered Buteux? the Bay when he was in France and he came to take it. Chanche is glad there are two priests on that coast. The position of the two Bishops of Vincennes is rather singular. The Prefect of Propaganda seems to have supposed jurisdiction in the Bishop-elect. In the case of Buteux, Bishop John Stephen Bazin was written to, to obtain an exeat for Chanche's diocese. Bazin sent this exeat to Rome and gave Chanche notice that he had granted the request. He hopes Bazin will not think of his consecration till the sickness is over. :: V-5-h A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.