Cuny, Father F. Christophe, Charenton, Louisiana, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1865 December 30

Cuny offers Odin his wishes for a good year. He has scarcely done anything in his parish except to maintain what good he found there. Times are very hard. He held the Jubilee but with little success especially on the part of the men of whom a great number came regularly at first to the Mass in the three churches where he continues to say it alternately. The collection amounted to only $10. At present he is busy cleaning up and restoring the cemetery at Charenton, and making a subscription to buy a bell for Pattersonville. Odin should tell Father Napoleon Joseph Perché that he gladly subscribes to the Propagateur Catholique and perhaps he will be able to get him some other subscriptions later. The Azelle ? Marthial family, who returned from Paris to reside with their old Father, wants him to say Mass and hold a catechism class in their house once a week. He asks Odin for authorization. The plan to buy a small chapel later. :: VI-2-e A.L.S. French 4pp. 4to.