Faure, Father J.A., San Antonio, Texas, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1861 October 8

He encloses no enclosure Mrs. _____ Matton's receipt for the $72.75. The money he used to pay her came from: $12.75 of $14.75 received from the Propagation of the Faith, $18 received for dispensations and from Brother Andrew M. Edel, S.M. who gave $42 which Odin should pay to Mr. _____ Poincy, his supplier in New Orleans. Father Matthew Sarry has recovered his health almost. He is now able to attend to his parish. Father Andrew Farges and Father Amandus Kramer, O.S.B. are well. Father John J. Magee of Corpus Christi is at San Antonio collecting for the debt on his house. The Ursulines and the Brothers of Mary are all well. Their schools are well attended. Farges visits the ranchos twice a month; for that reason Faure says Mass at the convent. Amandus says Mass at the new Church. The Irish-Americans are grumbling continually against the Germans and they accuse him of letting Amandus lead him by the nose. The Germans do not trouble him much only that so far he had almost all the expenses of the church. The people seem pleased with him; perhaps because he is too lenient. Bishop Joaquin Madrid has gone to Monterey having obtained a pass from Governor Santiago Vidaurri. It was another wound for Faure's heart but Madrid pined away at San Antonio. :: VI-2-e A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo.