Dubreul, Father Joseph Paul, Baltimore, Maryland, to Father Stephen Rousselon, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1850 April 16

Dubreul asks for a favor, as a fellow countryman and confrere newly arrived in America. It concerns an afflicted family. A young Frenchman, born at Orleans, where Dubreul has just spent 10 years at the seminary, died a short time ago in New Orleans. His parents know nothing of the circumstances of his death of which they learned indirectly. Rousselon can judge by the letter from one of his sisters, which Dubreul sends, on what points they wish to be informed. Two letters were sent to Dubreul before he left Paris to go to Liverpool. He hopes it will be possible to have, through Dr. Bruan, all the necessary information. This doctor must be known in New Orleans. Dubreul is a child of the seminary of St. Iréée; a Sulpician. After ten years in the ministry in France, God gave Dubreul an apostolic vocation. He sends his respects to Bishop Anthony Blanc by whom he was received at Sury in 1836 in the company of Father Froget, pastor St. Etienne. Dubreul believes there is in the diocese a friend and confrere from Lyons, Father James Fontbonne A.L.S. Enclosure: