Anstaett, Father Joseph, Galveston, Texas, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1861 June 21

The work on the Ursuline Convent has been interrupted for want of bricks. Perhaps by the end of next week they may be able to begin again. He sent the contents of Odin's letter to Mrs. Chapuy who thanks him. Mrs. Chapter M. Rice has gone to the country with Miss Emilie and Mr. Rice who has no work and has persevered since he took the pledge. Since Odin left they are like dead men in Limbo. His feeling has perhaps been augmented by his memories of the good Creole women who asked Odin about him. Before Odin'sdeparture, he hesitated to name all of those good ladies who had been so good to him five years ago. He now names a few: Mr. and Mrs. P. Rotchford, the Brousseau family, Miss White, Mrs. Maupassant and her daughters and sons-in-law, Mrs. Forestier, Mr. and Mrs. Dubreuil, Duncan Kennedy, Senor Don José Anguera, Mrs. Romangos, Mrs. McNeal, Marie Poursine and her mother, Mr. Dawson and his wife and mother-in-law who are glad to have Father John Hayden as pastor, the Gaschette family of the Ile, and Numa Dufour, Mr. and Mrs. Poincy, Mrs. Ogden, daughter of Mrs. Camille Wageman, 4 miles from Carrollton, the young Mr. Wageman and his wife, the Sauvé family, Mrs. Macé, Victorin Roman, the Zéringue family, Doctor Blanchard, Thomas Layton, etc. At Galveston the great event of the week is the visit of Governor Edward Clark and the review. :: VI-2-d A.L.S. French 4pp. 12mo.