Miller, S.J., Father Peter C., Baltimore, Maryland, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1866 December 14

Odin's letter of November 30 was received. The Sisters would be ready to start but the necessary funds for travelling are wanting. As they will have only a dayschool and orphan asylum, three Sisters will be sufficient. The one they intend to send as superior speaks French well. Miller hopes that Odin has understood that the Sisters sent to New Orleans would continue to form one religious body under one general Superior. For when their community was approved by the Holy See it was in the same manner as the Sisters of Charity were then in this country. Their novitiate should be in Baltimore but those received in New Orleans could make their six months probation in that city. :: VI-2-l A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.