Chambige, Father Francis, Bardstown, Kentucky, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1856 May 27

Chambige should answered Blanc's letter of the 2nd much sooner. In his last letter, Chambige wrote to Blanc, he said a word of the noisy, obtrusive, and rather too free acting of Father Jean Arthur Poyet which went so far that one of the clergymen gave him the qualification of bully. But the principal cause of his removal at their request from St. Thomas was the following. Their Bishop had sent them a clergyman who was inclined to drunkenness. They were charged to protect him against temptation. Poyet made him his boon companion, he even went so far as to buy whiskey. One day Chambige perceived the jug going up to his room. On inquiry, Poyet said it was for his neighbor. Chambige revealed to Poyet the fatal propensity of that neighbor. He replied that he would be very careful. Two or three days later Poyet went to town and left his key on his door. At supper, his neighbor gave more unequivocal signs of being drunk before all the students, orphans, and professors. Chambige ascertained that Poyet had given him the liquor. After Chambige had told Poyet confidentially to put him on his guard, Poyet told the neighbor of the conversation so that for many days he did not come to Chambige's room as was his custom. They deeply regretted the measure they had to take but it was their duty to protect the priest and save their little ones from scandal. :: VI-1-j A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.