Andrieu, C.M., Father Anthony, Assumption, Louisiana, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1857 December 26

He is charged by Hiram Hedwick Carver to ask for a dispensation from disparity of cult for Carver's future marriage to Emma Bourg . The young man says he was baptized an Episcopalian but his preference is for Catholicism. Father Charles Boglioli, C.M. announced from the pulpit that in the future the fee for a marriage in the church was only $5 and $10 at home. The motive was that almost no one had given him anything for a long time because, he thought, they found the usual fee too high. Blanc is to tell Andrieu what to do. Andrieu asks Blanc to give Father Cyprien Vénissat permission to say Mass at Napoleonville so that he can obtain some financial aid. In spite of some discouragement in the subscription, Vénissat seems determined to build his church. :: VI-1-m A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.