Elder, Bishop William Henry, Yazoo City, Mississippi, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1857 November 6

Elder has just received Blanc's inquiry about the Sisters of the Visitation ; he really cannot give any opinion. He presumes that the Sacred Congregation does not inquire about the law but rather about the intentions of the Sisters, practices, etc. Elder has never had any share in directing them. Elder asks Blanc to send him the instruction of the Congregation concerning the law of Trent on clandestine marriages. Considering all the difficulties connected with it, Elder cannot see the benefit of it. Father Francis Xavier Leray was to leave from Havre October 15 bringing one priest with him. Elder has a letter from a Father Zaza dated Paris saying that he believes he can obtain for Elder an excellent young priest with a vocation for the missions. Elder is to address his answer to the Countess do la Rochejacquelin . In writing to the Cardinal, Blanc is to do what he can for them in the matter of Mrs. Anne Lucas Hunt 's donation and put the cardinal on his guard against Bishop Anthony O'Regan 's representation. If O'Regan took so strange a means to get a renunciation from Bishop Juncker, he might have extorted a declaration from Mrs. Hunt. P.S. Blanc is to make a special memento for their temporal wants here. The suit about the graveyard will probably be decided in a week or two. :: VI-1-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.