Jan. Father Ange Marie, St. Martinville, Louisiana, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1865 June 28

How difficult the days they have just passed through! He is not forgetting that he owes Odin for the Jus Cathedraticum, dispensations, seminary collection, etc. But he has nothing but Confederate bills which he was obliged to turn into bonds. He will pay when times are better. When Confederate notes still had some value he received more Mass intentions than he could say. Today when these notes have no value is he bound to say the Masses remaining? He has been advised to ask the United States for indemnity for the losses he sustained from both sides. He asks Odin's advice. Of all his losses, the inconsolable one is the loss of devoted Mr. Fois?. He awaits Odin's pastoral visit with impatience. :: VI-2-i A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.