Laurent, O.S.B., Father, Glen-Trodhy, Monmouthshire, England, to Archbishop Napoleon Joseph Perché, Bordeaux, France, 1880 July 9

He thanks him a thousand times for the letter he sent him. Without that document, because of canon law, he could not advance despite all the good will of his religious superiors. He is no longer in France but with the English Benedictines where he was sent before the expulsion the order to see if some priests might be placed there. He believes they will admit only seminarians and then only on the condition that they belong to the Province of England. A good number of the priests are going to return to their respective dioceses and the others are going to go to the Indian Territory near Arkansas or else come to England. He asks Perché to attest that all his ecclesiastical papers were in order at the time of his departure from New Orleans on December 14, 1873. He should accompany it with his seal to make it an official document. Their life is hard but he has never been a happy as he is now. He is a good example of the fact that only follies can be expected of a deranged man. This supreme favor has been obtained by the prayers of his brother and of his sister, a religious. :: VI-3-b A.L. French 4pp. 16mo.