Houlahan, Father Daniel Spring Hill College, Alabama, to Father Stephen Rousselon, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1860 December 26

He was not able to answer Rousselon's letter because he fell sick immediately after his arrival. For two days before his departure from New Orleans he felt that he was going to be sick. He did not want to get sick at that house as the charitable people would say that it all existed in his imagination or would attribute it to some kind of imprudence. He knew he would not be able to do any work for Christmas and felt it might be well to let Father T. Flanagan find some other person to assist him. When he goes to New Orleans he will tell Rousselon of the other little difficulties, namely the way he has been treated there. The physician tells him that he has congestion of the lungs. He hopes to leave Mobile for New Orleans on Sunday. :: VI-2-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.