Elder, William Henry, Bishop of, Natchez, Mississippi, to Archbishop Napoleon Joseph Perché, France, 1876 September 10

Elder wrote Perché on March 10, April 27, and May 3 but received no reply. He trusts Perché received the letters. Cardinal Alexander Franchi wrote him and directed him to assemble the suffragan bishops to recommend names for the diocese of Natchitoches . Bishop John Quinlan is in Philadelphia but the other five met in New Orleans on the 6th and agreed upon Father Francis Xavier Leray, Father John Baptist Avenard and Father Adolphe Dupré . They are all originally from France. Leray, born in 1825, studied at Baltimore; Avenard, born in 1829, in Nantes Dupré, born in 1840 studied in the same seminary. Father Raymond and the rest at the archiepiscopal residence seem to be in good health. :: VI-2-o A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.