Nash, James P., Galveston, Texas, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1867 December 21

He has heard nothing definitely from Tom Nash except a few lines from Father Thomas? J. Smith, C.M. saying that Thomas and his mother were staying at the Hotel Dieu and that Drs. Boyer and Stone were seeing Tom. Smith says Tom's complaint is an abscess on his leg. He is somewhat relieved, believing it was a complaint in his lungs, the disease of which Mary Nash died. Odin is to send them home as soon as practicable; his mother would remain in New Orleans without counting the cost. Nash encloses a check for $100. He has not yet paid the doctor's bills for yellow fever. Rents are going down. He built a house last summer that cost $4000. The only apology Nash has to offer for troubling Odin is being aware of Odin's kind feelings since 1840. 21 years in Galveston are the most agreeable reminiscences of his life. :: VI-2-m A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.