Grace, O.P., Father Thomas Langdon, Memphis, Tennessee, to Philip Maher, Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, 1854 July 15

Grace is sorry not to have been at home in time to receive Maher's letter of the 4th of last month. Grace remembers the proposal made to him by Father Matthew A. O'Brien, O.S.D. and in assenting to it, Grace felt pleasure in an opportunity to oblige O'Brien and the Catholics at Milliken's Bend. On perusal of the Archbishop's letter which Maher had enclosed, Grace finds that the faculties are granted on the contingency of his being called by some circumstance to Maher's settlement and Lake Providence. Hence Grace would feel a difficulty in exercising faculties out of such a contingency. Maher will understand his hesitating until something more positive is obtained. A.L.S. :: VI-1-h A.L.S. 3pp. 4to.