Curioz, S.M., Father Louis, College of the Immaculate Conception, New Orleans, Louisiana, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1861 December 23

He fears he had insisted too much on the extension of the boundaries of the parish which Odin had fixed, and to have created the impression that they the Jesuits desired a parish and to have motivated Odin's refusal of their request. The unanimous vote of their council was not to have a parish and to perform neither burials nor marriages. Perhaps one could fear the impression this change would make on the public, but they will announce themselves that they solicited this exception. He tells Odin this not because they are not ready to do everything that he judges suitable, but so that knowing their sentiments he might be freer in his determination. :: VI-2-e A.L.S. French 2pp. 12mo.