Fillion, Father Leon, Charleston, South Carolina, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1854 May 20

Fillion was absent from Charleston when Blanc's letter of May 2 came. Having considered, since writing to Blanc, that public opinion alone had informed him of the details which he intended to communicate to Blanc he has a scruple. Since Bishop William Lawrence Louis Angebault offers him the alternative of talking or of telling what was written to him, Fillion hopes that Blanc will take the latter. Fillion thanks Blanc for the lines at the end of his letter. He is glad to know that he has a right to Blanc's affection; his only regret is that Blanc did not have a more consoling reason for giving it. :: VI-1-g A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.