Beccard, Father Améé, Lafourche, Louisiana, to Father Stephen Rousselon, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1858 November 8

Beccard received Rousselon's letter by the Thibodaux post. Raceland has at last emerged from the watery state which had made Beccard a sort of amphibian. He thanks Rousselon for the Rouyer money; the Masses will be faithfully acquitted. Beccard has lived six years in a new parish of immense length amid vexations of every kind in a state against nature as he is from an educated family. He does not even have a servant. He has put 12000 feet of lumber into his church which is almost finished. His health, impaired by his duties as well as by bodily fatigue, has been delicate these last months. He has even had to stop all trips to his St. Andre church. However, his chest is better. :: VI-1-o A.L.S. French 1p. 4to.