Dubuis, Bishop Claude Marie, Bishop of Galveston, San Antonio, Texas, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1865 November 28

He has just received a letter from Father Theophile Blancgarin at Baton Rouge. He asks if Dubuis would receive a seminarian from LeMans who was with Odin but who left Bouligny Seminary at the end of a few months. Francis Mary has been teaching since in Blancgarin's parish, keeping the idea of being priest. Dubuis' need is so great that he asks Odin to give his opinion as to whether Mary should wait longer. Dubuis is to leave tomorrow for Galveston, via Austin, Bastrop, Pinoak and Frelsburg. While in the West he prepared a place at Victoria for the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and for a hundred children by the acquisition of the Scheiner lot on which he had a large wooden house moved. It will amount to $2000. The new building of the Ursulines at San Antonio is going ahead although it is difficult to obtain materials. He has not had a good chance to settle the San José affair. The new prior has not yet decided whether he will accept or not. Debts amount to 5000 piastres. Dubuis is waiting for a final reply from Father Emilian Wendel, O.S.B. who is at Castroville. All are well and delighted to get good news of Odin through Mr. Lombard. :: VI-2-j A.L.S. French 3pp. 12mo.