Crenan, M.R., Jackson, Louisiana, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855 December 10

Crenan received Blanc's letter of the 3rd by Peter Walsh. He has given Walsh a home for the present still hoping he may do better. He has done bad things. It was his pilfering deeds and bad company that caused Crenan to send him to Father Charles Chambost . Walsh acknowledges that he was well treated there and left place in company with a priest without Chambost's knowledge. He says the name of the priest is Father Botti? Boaty and that he left this priest at a grocery in New Orleans. The grocer's name is, as Peter says, Charles Sheil. Crenan has given Blanc's letter to Father Cooper at Bayou Sara where he was raising subscriptions for a church at that place. Cooper has also awakened the people of Jackson which was almost impossible without a priest. Cooper has contracted for the finishing of the church at Jackson and it will be finished in a very short time. They hope they will not be left without a priest. :: VI-1-i A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.