Anstaett, Father Joseph, Galveston, Texas, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1866 January 22

He thought of Odin on December 27, one of his feast days but Odin's successor, Bishop Claude Marie DuBuis , keeps him busy writing. Anstaett is getting to be almost as good a sleeper as Father Ch. Dubuis says he had all of January to write to Odin, but their retreat begins this evening. G.D. Grover wants to send his only daughter to the convent in New Orleans because of the good teachers there. Anstaett thinks this recommendation comes from Mrs. Sulakonsky whose husband was chief engineer at Galveston during the war and whose mother, Mrs. Simpson was educated by the Ursulines of New Orleans. The Grovers are a very good family; he does not despair of their following the example of the three Grovers at San Patricio who all came into the Church. Odin is to speak to Father Perché or the Superior of the Convent to send Grover a prospectus. :: VI-2-k A.L.S. French 3pp. 12mo.