Brands, C.M., Father John, Assumption, La Fourche, Louisiana, to Father Stephen Rousselon, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1853 October 25

The Superior has asked Brands to ask Rousselon to send the bill and customs expenses of the articles they received from France. They have turned over the ostensorium to the parish and do not know ho much to charge. Rousselon said when he was handling the box of books, that their priests in Paris were better at teaching theology than making boxes. He could have added: and at buying books for they sent them unbound books. They had enough money to buy them bound. The Superior asks also to get a subscription for him to "Analectica Juris Pontificis;" they have no business correspondence in France. It seems that the yellow fever is leaving. Last Sunday they still had 6 burials and since then almost one a day. :: VI-1-f A.L.S. French 1p. 4to.