Devereux, S.M., Sister M. Joseph, New Orleans, Louisiana, to M. J. Castell, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1881 January 18

They received a communication from W. W. Handlin, attorney, and called at his office to find it concerned the Patrick Irwin will. Handlin says the Supreme Court decided that all the orphan asylums, ten in number, are entitled to a share and he wants the Sisters of Mercy to employ him—if Castell thinks it advantageous, he should authorize him to attend to it. She supposes if the others got a share theirs could not be kept from them. VI-3-c - A.L.S. - 2pp. - 12mo. - {5}