Beaumont, Mrs. C.G., Jonesville, Michigan, to Any Priest of the Roman Catholic Church, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1858 March 29

Born and educated in the Unitarian creed, Beaumont has with the last few years become a convert to Catholic truth. She is the only one of her race and blood that in Catholic and she is looked upon as almost demented and to have been the prey of a wicked Church. Born and reared in affluence she found herself none 10 years ago greatly reduced in means and 6 years ago was left a widow with nine children only one of whom was married. She has lived to see 3 daughters settled and their husbands nobly providing for the rest and herself. At the time of her conversion her 5 youngest children were baptised in the Catholic faith but all their associations are Protestant. They are 60 miles from the church. Her friends are wealthy still; her daughters are surrounded by the luxuries of life and they offer their homes to her. But her soul needs food. She cannot worship God in a Catholic way, she has no access to Catholic books and is shut out from intelligent Catholic society. She desires a situation where those privileges will not be withheld. She cannot teach music or French but could be a matron in a school or take charge of 2 or 3 young misses, or copy law papers, or keep house. She has a daughter aged 21 who teaches music and French in Nashville and one who has earned high enconiums from those who have employed her. She would like them to be with her and rescue them from heretical tendencies. The daughter has been baptized and confirmed by Bishop LeFevere; she is now governess in a Presbyterian minister's family. Beaumont has a Protestant friend living in New Orleans and through her, Beaumont ventures to write. In the Archbishop Anthony Blanc papers. :: VI-1-n A.L.S. 8pp. 4to.