Mudd, S.C., Sister Mary Austin, Baltimore, Maryland, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1856 January 17

Blanc's kind letter of welcome back to Donaldsonville had scarcely reached Austin when she received a summons to leave it. She called to see Blanc the day before leaving New Orleans but did not find him home. A sojourn of ten or eleven years in Donaldson could not fail to elicit her deepest interest. Not the least was Blanc's unvarying kindness which soothed the sacrifices there. She hears nearly every week from the Sisters of Charity and children in Donaldsonville. It seems there are prospects of some vocations being formed. She desires to do the will of God be it ever so trying to poor nature, even placed among fools. :: VI-1-j A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.