Mina, Father Ve. Modeste, St. John Baptist, Louisiana, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1847 October 27

Mina asks Blanc to accept the oranges; they were picked not quite ripe. As there are none except at the presbytery, everyone is asking for them and soon there will be none. Mina received Blanc's letter inviting him to come to the retreat on the 16th of next month; he will make it his duty to attend. As to the Nota and decree cited by the Congregation of Sacred Rites about Communion at requiem Masses, Mina did not insert it. In commissioning him to edit the Ordo, he was expressly forbidden to meddle with the abbreviations and Nota as found in the Ordo of Baltimore for 1817, 1818, and 1819; he was careful to keep two of 1817 and 1818. :: V-5-h A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.