de Luynes, Father H , New York, New York, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1859 September 15

De Luynes is interceding for a woman to whom Blanc loaned $25 several years ago to pay her travel expenses from New Orleans to New York. Her name was Ann Murphy, and she married a man named Kavanaugh in New York. Blanc had told her that $15 would suffice as payment of the debt, and she was to turn it over to Father William Starrs of St. Francis Church, New York. She was unable to do so, and and now her husband has died, leaving her no estate and two children to support. De Luynes fears that her morbid preoccupation with the terms of the debt might be dangerous. He asks Blanc to release her from the debt. He is sure she is sincere in her grief and fear of the suffering hereafter for not paying the debt. :: VI-2-b A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.