O'Connor, Louise, Bayou Sara, Louisiana, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1859 February 18

Three weeks ago O'Connor had to send for the priest at Pointe Coupee to administer the last rites to her dying father. She received no answer to her note, and soon heard that he had said that her father was not worth the trip. Lucien Michel, church warden and treasurer, promised to send the priest immediately, but he still did not arrive. She wrote a note saying she would report him to Blanc if he did not come, and she encloses his insulting reply no enclosure. Her Protestant friends were scandalized by the affair. Her father died without the last rites, and she had to send for an episcopal minister, Parson Lewis, to read the funeral service. Her father had been very good to the clergy. Father Francis Mittelbronn 's reason for not seeing her father—he was drunk every evening after saying Mass in the morning. She did not send to Jackson because the river was too dangerous to cross, but she understands that Father George McMahon is intemperate also. Blanc had better send better priests than these. A good priest in Bayou Sara would get a church built without difficulty. She asks Mittelbronn's suspension, and can prove her charges. :: VI-2-a A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.