Godfert, Father Antoine, Green Bay, Wisconsin, to Father Napoleon Joseph Perché, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1848 November 16

Perché has no doubt heard of the loss of Godfert's church and the seminary attached to it. They have bought a Methodist church which is too small and not yet paid for. They are in danger of losing it. He asks Perché to give him some Mass intentions to pay for his paper. Godfert has been in the United States six years and has worked with the Sioux. Last year he was sent to Green Bay. He found a fine church here built in 1831 by Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, O.P. . Godfert had not been at Green Bay three months when fire destroyed the church. They could save only the tabernacle, ciborium, and a small silver monstrance with the inscription "… given by Nicholas Perrot to the mission of St. Francis Xavier…1686." He begs Perché's intercession in asking the people of New Orleans for aid. :: V-5-j A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.