Anatolie, C.S.J. Sister Marie, New Orleans, Louisiana, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1866 February 24

She had promised Father Francis Gautrelet, S.J. Gautreley to stay a while but her trouble grows worse, not less. After what she told Father Francis Nachon he said he could not give her absolution and told her to write to Odin. She cannot forget the troubles Mother Eulalie, C.S.J experienced. They made it believed that the rule was not being observed and it was they themselves who were not observing it. Can they calumniate thus even after death? About Anatolie herself, what have they not said and written. One boasted of a 26 page letter. She could never believe in their charity; she was made a subject of derision. She knows that Mother Eulalie had confidence in her and as Eulalie was old and often ill, Anatolie went ahead without orders and they said she liked to command. She begs Odin to let her leave. There are plenty of them without her. Their Mother does not teach school and she is young, having entered six years after Anatolie. Three of the young Sisters have class only half a day. Sister Joanis, C.S.J., who is 30, is beginning to learn piano. Three Sisters teach English and there is a Creole and an Irish candidate who speaks English well. Anatolie teaches from 8 in the morning until 8 at night. She wishes to enter the Ursulines. This thought has not left her for eleven years. On their arrival they stayed a week at their house. If it had not been for fear of offending their aged Mother she would have remained there. She recalls that Bishop Claude Marie Dubuis asked for Sisters and they were promised him. She knows that the priest from Biloxi came to ask last week. She believes he is to take Sisters of the Cross. What would prevent giving the Mother Assistant as Superior as she serves nothing here. If all efforts fail she would go to her cousin in France. But she hopes Odin will hear her as she cannot remain here. :: VI-2-k A.L.S. French 4pp. 4to.