Elder, William Henry, Bishop of Natchez, Mississippi, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1865 April 21

About the middle of March Elder enclosed to Odin a letter for Brother Athanasius, S.C., former director of their college at Bay St. Louis. Brother went from there to New Orleans in December, 1862 to open a school. If he is not there Odin is to give this to any of that Congregation Brothers of Christian Instruction of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans or send it to Mobile to the Provincial there. He will be thankful for Odin's help; their poor boys are in wretched condition spiritually. He encloses no enclosure a publication which explains itself; they all attended the public meeting and the procession, a departure from his usual practice of being absent. The singular atrocity of the deed and the exasperation of the soldiers white and colored made it both right and expedient to express their detestation. The General is very careful and considerate. :: VI-2-i A.L.S. 1p. 4to.