Mégret, Father Anthony Désiré, Cote Gelée, Louisiana, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1847 August 28

He left St. Martin, going by way of Cote Gelée, to go to Abbeville tomorrow. Experience has shown him that great talkers are never great doers and Father Louis Dufour bears this out. Dufour cannot render the service Blanc proposed because January will not find him in Louisiana. Dufour only came to Louisiana to make money and then go on further. Mégret has seen the tiger Adrien? Dumartrait who is not satisfied with an average sum; he demands all and has forbidden Mégret to sell the seized articles on September 6. Mégret will send him to Dufour; they say they understand each other like two thieves. So Mégret will sell the articles which have not been seized but he does not think he will be able to satisfy the ogre. Megret asks that Blanc make Father John Francis Abbadie, S.J. the proposition that he made Dufour. It would give him all the services dependent on the possibility of his house. Mégret owes him but he will see that he is paid before January. Mégret will leave no debts. :: V-5-h A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.