Beccard, Father Améé, La Fourche, Louisiana, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1860 March 12

Since October something, an evil or good spirit, has taken hold of his waking hours and sometimes of the night. If Father Etienne Rousselon still has the letter in which Beccard tried to tell him about it, Blanc is to ask him for it. Three-fourths of these 8 months have been passed in crying out and weeping. Several miles from Father Charles M. Menard's house, coming here, he stopped three times to beg it to leave him. On the 23rd of this month he left for the chapel at Fields Lake ; he fell 5 or 6 times. On March 26, Beccard writes: He wrote all that before going to New Orleans and he fears on returning to pay dearly for those rare moments of repose which he had in the bishop's house. He returned in a state of prostration; on arriving at Menard's house his heart was flooded with shame because he could not tell him everything. :: VI-2-c A.L.S. French 8pp. 8vo.