Abbadie, S.J., Father John Francis, St. Michael, Louisiana, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1848 December 31

Yesterday he had a reply from Mr. Welham who consents to giving the roadway if Abbadie gives him a watch for which Father Ladavière paid $70. Abbadie told him he would write to Blanc and if Blanc consented they would sign the deed. Abbadie has been asked to buy a little house near Mrs. Jacob 's. What does Blanc think? P.S. Abbadie encloses a letter for Father Joseph Soller, S.J. , asking Blanc to send August with it so he may have it at once. Abbadie is notifying him to get some articles which are on board the Mary Foley. He is enclosing two notes for $10 to be given to Soller with the letter. If he can cash them he is to keep them; if not he is to return them. :: V-5-j A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to. Photostat: Original on reverse side of one page of a draft for an article, "The Church in the Dark Ages," Brownson's Quarterly Review, VI July 1849, in Box I-4-n