Chalon, Father Gabriel, Mobile, Alabama, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1854 June 27

As soon as he received Blanc's letter, Chalon set about getting new facts. No one could tell him if W. meant Wilkinson or Wilson. All agreed that the Samuel Wilson Raymond ? who married and whose wife is still living is a carpenter by trade and it would only be by chance that he became a hat dealer in Mobile. Here is a description of Raymond: A man of about 50, stout, below ordinary height, light complexion, light blue eyes, full face. He came from Louisville to Mobile in '42 or '43. After telling P.G. Maguire, a highly respectable man, that Blanc would pay the expenses of a trip to anyone who would go to New Orleans and identify the man, Maguire replied that he would go. Maguire will bring this letter. Chalon asks Blanc to get from Alexandre Dimitri, the second volume of Geographi e Sacree, Mighne edition, which Chalon lent Dimitri when he was at Mobile. :: VI-1-g A.L.S. French 8vo. 2pp.