Bouchet, Father Jules, Assumption, Louisiana, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1867 December 19

The epidemic has just taken a new victim, Father Cyprian Veyrat of Paincourtville. On December 14 he was taken with the yellow fever although he had few symptoms of that disease; on December 19 he was dead. It is a great loss for the parish; Bouchet has lost a friend and model. The funeral was held yesterday. Bouchet will serve until Odin can fill the vacancy. Odin knows that the wiping out of the debt on Bouchet's parish depends a little on the priest of Paincourtville who could help him greatly or put an obstacle in his way. To ask for appointment to this post would be a vain pretention. He believes that Father Claude Favre could fill the post because of the esteem he has acquired among the faithful and his knowledge of the parish. :: VI-2-m A.L.S. French 3pp. 4to.