Chanche, Bishop John Joseph, Natchez, Mississippi, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1851 January 10

Chanche received Blanc's letter of December 31 and the preceding one enclosing the $20 sent by Father J.P. Bellier . Chanche thanks Blanc also for the wine Father Rousselon is to send. Chanche is happy that the pallium has come; he hopes it will arrive in New Orleans while Chanche is with Blanc. Blanc would of course invite the Bishop of Mobile to perform to ceremony and the Bishop of Galveston to be present. Perhaps Bishop Andrew Byrne will have arrived by that time. If the palliums have arrived for the Bishops of New York and Cincinnati, they will feel flat when they reach Rome. Father Louis Regis Deluol said, "The Bishop of New Orleans, is too wise to expose himself to such a blunder." Poor Father Pitrat must have been a great hypocrite and something worse, he was writing his book when Blanc was so kind to him and receiving Chanche's hospitality and administering besides the functions of the priesthood. But all apostates have been in the same case. Chanche intends to leave Wednesday by the Natchez. :: VI-1-a A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.