Anstaett, Father Joseph, Bourboule-Les-Bains, Puy-de-Dome, France, to Archbishop Napoleon Joseph Perché, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1878 September 2

Several weeks ago the transatlantic telegraph announced sad news of Louisiana. Yellow fever is ravaging New Orleans and he wishes he were there to make himself useful. He has survived the epidemic six times. If Perché believes he could render some service he should telegraph him at St. Etienne. He is presently strong, robust and capable of working. At Lourdes he lost completely his stomach ache and intermittent fever. His nerves are strengthened in the baths of Grand Pré. However, his pimples have returned and his right eye is still bad. At Lourdes, where he returned on April 20, he met Edward Bermudez and his whole family. A friend of Cecilia Panneau acquainted him with a friend of hers who had been cured often anemia worse than his. He has met Mr. and Mrs. Grenier, formerly servants at Jefferson College, St. James, where they lost a son to the yellow fever. They are associated with the maitre d'hotel, Mr. Delmas . The doctor whom Anstaett consults is Mr. De Roaldè who is at Angers along with Mrs. Buel, the mother-in-law of Mr. Pardély with Pardély's daughter and her servants. P.S. Miss Panneau has just given him Perché's good news. :: VI-3-a A.L.S. French 4pp. 8vo.