Elder, Bishop William Henry, Natchez, Mississippi, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1859 January 2

Elder will try to be in New Orleans for the 15th. He wrote as soon as possible last week about selling their church lot on Commerce Street; the committee are afraid of losing the opportunity. They have an offer for $3500. Rome has not answered his letters of July 1857 and last summer. He thought he might sell it without express authorization. It is of no use, the legal title is in the trustees, not in Elder. The Cathedral residence and lot was transferred to Bishop John Chanche by the trustees. The trustees have only that lot and the graveyard around the church which is now in lawsuit with the city. Elder does not think the church was consecrated. :: VI-2-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.