Alleau, Father Th., New Orleans, Louisiana, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1864 May 14

The ceremony aboard the Amphion will take place on Monday at 10 A.M. The seminarians could pick him up around 9. If Captain Devarenne had not feared it was indiscreet he would have asked Odin to officiate. As Odin desired, Alleau wrote to Father Theophilus Ratisbonne concerning the Association of Christian Mothers. Ratisbonne replied that he was sending the manual, etc. which have not yet arrived. According to the apostolic brief, the diploma of affiliation is delivered only by episcopal order. Alleau has had a little book printed; if it should go to a second edition Odin could enrich it with his approbation. Alleau has added to Father Quadrapani's work only the dedication, the notice about the Archconfraternity of Christian Mothers and a chapter on the dance taken from the most reliable authors. Alleau hopes things at the Cathedral are going well but he is convinced that there is no remedy in his power to the evils which have existed so long and which Odin pointed out to Alleau in France with so much sadness. :: VI-2-h A.L.S. French 3pp. 4to.