Elder, Bishop William Henry, Natchez, Mississippi, to Father Francis Xavier Leray, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1860 May 14

He has given Leray nothing definite about his coming because he could not learn definitely from others. He will be at Vicksburg June 17. He expects to hold an ordination on Trinity Sunday and will go to Vicksburg when Father F. Miller returns. Elder is writing to Father P. Le Corre about Greenwood, Mississippi, where there are several Catholics. If he is unable to attend to it, could Leray or Father Andrew Bennett visit it? Mr. Roach has a plantation on the Mississippi, near Greenville, Mississippi on which many of the slaves are Catholics. Can Leray visit it? Could Bennett go to Port Gibson, Mississippi to marry a couple on May 24? Father Philip Huber is away on business. They expect to open their boys' asylum D'Evereux Hall next week. The man is a Free Mason but expects to leave when his term of office expires. They are staying at John Taylor Moore' s about 5 miles from Port Gibson. Their names are Paul Barrot, a carpenter, and Mary Morrison . Father Mathurin F. Grignon has unexpectedly received a promise of Sisters of Mercy from Baltimore, subject to possible interference from Pittsburg. The Archbishop of Baltimore advised Grignon to get them there. They will be ready to come any time after August. Grignon was to sail from New York May 5. P.S. Huber promised to write to the parties that they could not be married at Mass. :: VI-2-c A.L.S. 3pp. 4to. 15