Deynoodt, S.J., Father Francis, College of St. Michel, Brussels, Belgium, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1865 Jun?

He writes for information about his brother, Father Louis Deynoodt lately at St. Patrick's in New Orleans. He learned from Father Constantine Maenhaut, former pastor of the Cathedral with whom he had dinner at his mother's house in Ghent, that Louis had resigned as assistant at St. Patrick's. Maenhaut spoke of a difference between Louis and an Irish priest and a grave accusation and an honorable acquittal for his brother. All this saddened his mother and the whole family. Francis asks Odin to tell him what really happened. Louis is good and talented but too willful and sensitive. As Odin knows he left them in one of these moments of discontent; but he is a good priest and his independent character probably did not fit their Company which demands submission to authority. Francis attended the funeral of Mr. De Nègre who has three of his sons here. He literally died of grief leaving a widow and 13 children. He was the former president of the Citizens Bank of New Orleans. Maenhaut has been named honorary canon of the Cathedral of St. Bavon by the new Bishop of Ghent. It was he who assisted De Nègre at his death, who became a Catholic in his last moments. Maenhaut painted a terrible picture of New Orleans. They gave hospitality in their College for two years to Bishop John Bernard Fitzpatrick; he was in Europe for his health. He seems extremely northernist; opinions are free, they are neither southernist nor northernist. ` P.S. Is there not some way to get Louis to do away with his beard? He no longer needs to fear throat diseases from the cold. :: VI-2-i A.L.S. French 4pp. 4to.