Gys, P.J., Malines, Belgium, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1863 May 22

Gys asks for some information about Francis X. Ceuppens and John B. Bogaerts, formerly subdeacons at the Grand Seminary of Malines who left from Le Havre with Bishop Claude Mary Dubuis, C.M. of Texas and 52 missionaries and 8 religious on February 4, 1863 on the Ste. Genevieve, destined for Louisiana and Texas. Ceuppens, whose deputy guardian Gys was, promised to write immediately after his arrival, but he has received no news from him. In June 1862 he gave Ceuppens a voucher worth 4000 francs so that he could received Holy Orders; assuming that he is in America as a missionary, he no longer needs it and Gys wishes to recover it. Ceuppens said he would forward it as soon as he had his exeat from the Archbishop of Malines, Cardinal Engelbert Sterckx. Sterckx told Ceuppens that it depended on his Archbishop and Ceuppens told Gys that it depended on Odin, who had told him to return it as soon as he arrived at New Orleans. He asks Odin to see that he receives it. ` P.S. He requests Odin to forward the enclosed no enclosure letter to Ceuppens. :: VI-2-g A.L.S. French 2pp. 12mo.