Chavaete, Father P.J., Woumen, Belgium, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855 September 15

Since Blanc's last letter from Lyons several days before departing for America, Chavaete has heard nothing of his health. He hopes that the indisposition he complained of was not of long duration and that he made the ocean crossing without danger. However, God permitted Blanc to be tried in another way. The papers have informed him that Blanc's seminary was consumed by fire. All goes well here. At the hospice there are 50 persons, comprising the Sisters. However, it is hard to get supplies for so many. Chavaete is as economical as possible but there is always a lack. So he asks Blanc to send him, as in the past, the revenue from the inheritance. Blanc is also to send him the draft in order not to have it paid twice as it was last year, once at Paris and then in Belgium. He saw by the newspapers that Father Stephen Rousselon has arrived in Belgium; it will be a month before Chavaete could hope to see him. :: VI-1-i A.L.S. French 3pp. 8vo.