Avenard, Father J B, Campté, Louisiana, to Father Stephen Rousselon, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1859 August 1

Avenard received Rousselon's letter of July 20 on July 30, and in it found that Rousselon had sent him a large barrel of wine by the steamboat "Effort". Avenard thanks Rousselon and will pay him the $14.00, as Rousselon suggests, by saying 14 masses for him. The "Effort" has not reached Campté, and Avenard hopes it will get as far as Grand Ecore, where he can have it picked up. Avenard does not want Rousselon to think that he had disregarded Rousselon's advice by getting wine directly from France in the past, but his father was in a position to send it, and Avenard had never asked for it. He had not known when the boat left France, what the captain's name was, or the name of the boat, which is why he did not notify Rousselon. He has notified his father, and shall again, not to send any more. Bishop Augustus Martin is fine. P.S. Someone with a particular confidence is St. Augustine sent him an honorarium for a mass to be said in the New Orleans church dedicated to that saint. He turned it over to Bishop Martin, who told him to write Rousselon. :: VI-2-b A.L.S. French 4pp. 16mo.