Favre, Father Claude, Thibodaux, Louisiana, to Archbishop John Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1868 January 10

While visiting at Breacher Brashear City he heard that a lawsuit is pending between the railroad and the estate of Walter Brashear Breacher, for there has been discovered at New York a mortgage on all the property of the village. If the railroad loses its suit, all land sales will be declared void. Thus, Favre advises Odin to pay the amount due on the land for the church. The flooding and yellow fever have made it impossible to collect any of the subscription. :: VI-2-n A.L.S. French 1p. 4to.