Alemany, O.P., Archbishop Joseph Sadoc, San Francisco, California, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1859 May 2

Alemany thanks Blanc for his letter of March 8. Alemany became acquainted in Kentucky with Father Peter J. Lavialle Labialle and he seemed to be a very good priest. Lavialle seemed to be the guardian to Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, S.S. some time before Flaget's death. He was then editing the Catholic paper of Louisville; he is now president of St. Mary's College, Lebanon. Bishop Martin John Spalding and Bishop John McGill no doubt know him well. If Bishop Augustus Mary Martin of Narchitoches is well known to Blanc he might succeed better then a new man. Alemany understands that Lavialle was second on the list sent to Rome by the Archbishop of Baltimore for the Florida Vicariate. He might make a good prelate for Natchitoches or New Orleans, Father Annet LaFont, St. Vincent's New York, may have been on same list. Archbishop Hughes and his suffragans ought to know him. Alemany has received no reply from Rome about his difficulties on the Council of Trent. He hopes Blanc's health is restored and that he will have no successor for many years. :: VI-2-a A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.