Scope and Contents Baraga arrived in Lapointe on Feb. 11, and will leave immediately Fev. 16. for Fond du Lac where he will stay 8 or 10 days. He intends to go back to L'Anse about March 15. Father Otto Skolla is doing very well in Lapointe. The congregation likes him very much, though they miss Baraga. He has a good interpreter for all his sermons and confessions and Baraga is happy to see the Indians go to confession without difficulty. Skolla has made fine progress in studying French and the Indian...

Scope and Contents Baraga feels extremely grateful to the Bishop for what he had done for him and said to him in his letter of July 30. What he said about Father Otto Skolla will serve as information and advice to Baraga and will settle the matter. He does not know everything of that affair, but from the Bishop's letter he begins to understand. He will not ask the Bishop any more to send Father Skolla to Lapointe. It never was his intention to keep Skolla with him, but to leave him alone in Lapointe. The...

Scope and Contents Baraga received several letters from the Bishop and he thanks him for the money that is being sent to him. He has already made arrangements to settle his bills, but those who have received money-orders do not have to be paid immediately, they will wait until the Bishop has received the sums mentioned in his letters. The first money order of $181- is made out to a man who can wait until spring 1848. The Bishop should not pay until he has received the annuities for the Indian schools in the...

Scope and Contents Baraga who was in L'Anse on a mission during Spring, on returning June 16 found among many letters which arrived on the first boat on May 30, 4 letters from the Bishop written on Oct. 17, 1842-Feb. 10, 1843- April 10 and 20, 1843. Sault Ste. Marie had no postoffice last winter, therefore the delay. Letter of Oct. 17 contains the rights and powers which the Bishop conceded to his priests. Baraga promises to observe them strictly. He asks the Bishop's advice in one matter. He had been told by...

Scope and Contents Baraga is at present with all his Indians from L'Anse in Lapointe, who came to receive their payment. He is greatly disturbed that his Indians of Lapointe have not yet received a missionary since he left. They desire one so much, that he promised to spend every summer with them until they will have a priest. He wrote to Bishop John Martin Henni of Milwaukee to send them one as soon as possible. The Indians of Grand Portage and Fond du Lac, who are also here are even more to be pitied. Baraga...

Scope and Contents Father Baraga is again in need of $300. and asks the Bishop for it. It will be the last time for the next two years. To build a settlement is always expensive in the beginning. Mr. Crooks, the president of the Fur Company, would like to have all accounts settled before he leaves, but he gives Father a term of 10 months for the payment. Baraga spoke with Mr. Robert Stuart about the Circular. Mr. Stuart hopes that it will not affect the Catholic Mission in L'Anse and that the blacksmith may...

Scope and Contents Baraga received Father Badin's letter of September 28, 1837 on March 5, 1838. He is sorry he cannot send the medals to Badin before the beginning of navigation which is at the end of June. He has brought no other things from Europe for him. The 630 francs which Bishop Frederick Rese had paid for the transport of Baraga's luggage will be paid back by Mr. Logros of Havre, to whom Baraga had sent the money from New York through a Mr. Crooks. The expenses of the printing and binding of the...

Scope and Contents Baraga's relations had written in several letters that they have sent money to him through the Leopoldine Association. This money should be in the hands of Bishop Frederick Rese, as the Association never sends the money simple missionaries. But if a sum of money is given for a special missionary, the Association usually indicated that such a sum must be given to such a missionary. His eldest sister informed him that on August 17, 1838, a sum of $260 was sent specially for him. But he never...

Scope and Contents Father Baraga hopes that Father Badin has received his last letter April 27, 1840 in which he specified the sums of money which were sent to him from Europe. He would also like to receive more news about the diocese and also a catalogue with all the Catholic clergy of the United States, as he wants to know the number of the priests and the state of the different dioceses. His own little mission is in good order it is already a little parish. He intends to build a new church next summer a...

Scope and Contents Father V. Badin's two letters July 10 and 31, arrived on August 18. Baraga would like to know as soon as possible who will be the successor of Bishop Frederick Résé. He thanks him for sending the Almanac, containing a list of all the clergy in the US, also for the $250 which were given to a William Brewster, who was to have delivered the notification to a Mr. Borup, the Agent of the Fur Company in Lapointe. As he has not yet done so, Baraga asks Badin to see that he does. Mr. Fraushere is...

Scope and Contents Baraga thanks Mr. Stuart for coming to him and proposing to appropriate a certain sum for schools and missions. As this sum is now appropriated, Baraga hopes that Stuart keeps his intention to give a share of this money to the Indian congregation as the Indians and half- breeds in his mission are more numerous than the Protestants. About $300 a year would please the Indians. Their chief is Buffalo's oldest son. Baraga and his congregation have always desired a Catholic school but...

Scope and Contents Father Rese's letter of December 8, 1832 brought to Father Baraga a great deal of consolation and joy, but also much astonishment and worry. Consolation and joy because Rese has promised help and support to the mission---astonishment because a relative of Baraga wants to come from Austria to the mission and worry because Mr. Lichtenberg intends to visit the mission. He implores Rese to prevent such a visit. Furthermore, Baraga wants to know who exactly the person from Austria is that wants...

Scope and Contents , Father Baraga is still worried about the relative who intends to come to devote her life to the mission. He had received a letter from his older sister in which she wrote that it is the younger sister who is coming and that the Bishop gave her the permission to come. Baraga is quite distressed about that, because she knows no French and will never be able to learn it well. She will be very unhappy. Baraga wrote to her immediately not to come. If she gets the letter before she left, Baraga...

Scope and Contents Baraga requests Rese to allow him to begin a new mission at La Pointe, Wisconsin. A year ago Madame Marianne Lasaliere Fisher had told him of this place on Lake Superior where there are many savages and some Catholics, but no priest. These people especially the savages, desire very much to have a priest because they want to be converted. They have never seen a "black robe," but several Protestant ministers have tried to convert them, with no result. For a long time he has pondered over this...

Scope and Contents Father Baraga received Father Rese's letter of December 2 of the previous year only on January 29. Rese in his letter had complained that Baraga writes so seldom and so little. Baraga justifies himself by saying that though he wrote little to Cincinnati, however he had been writing more to Vienna, to the Leopoldine Association, which letters are quite detailed. These letters to Vienna he considers of greater importance than those to Cincinnati. Baraga is glad to hear that the sum of money...

Scope and Contents Father Baraga is still concerned about the relative who wants to come to L'Arbre Croche in order to devote her life to the Indians of this mission. If she should really come she would have to teach school with Madame Fisher, therefore he asks Father Badin to tell Miss Elizabeth Williams not to come to the mission. When he had engaged her he did not know of this other person. Again he asks to be informed as to who is going to be Bishop of Cincinnati, or Bishop of Detroit. He also inquires how...

Scope and Contents Baraga has answered Miss Elizabeth Williams' letter sincerely and asked her to show that letter to Father Badin who is her confessor. Badin will see them for himself that Baraga has done her no wrong. When Father Frederick Rese comes to L'arbre Croche he will decide about this matter with more assurance. Baraga reproaches Father Badin a little because he still has not answered him about the church bell which is to be recast in Detroit. He wants to know whether it is finished and when he can...

Scope and Contents Father Baraga sends Father V. Badin $160,000. He is not able to send him the whole sum of $130,000 which he owes to Mr. Desnoyers and Mr. Steavens, because that is all the money he possesses. While he was in Detroit someone has stolen $50 out of his trunk, from the $250 which Bishop Edward Fenwick had given him. As he owes Mme. Marianne Lasaliere Fisher $20 and the hired man $20, there is only $160 left. He suspects the hired man, but has no way of proving it. He asks Father V.F. Badin to...

Scope and Contents Father Baraga asks Badin to answer him several questions which have worried him quite a bit., 1. What has happened to the church bell which was to be recast in Detroit and which Baraga hoped to get before the winter,, 2. Has Father Frederick Rese arrived in Detroit and what arrangements has Badin made with him: Has he paid Badin what Badin loaned Baraga and has Rese received Baraga's letter from Mackinaw., 3. What has Badin arranged with Steavens and Desnoyers concerning Baraga's bill., 4....

Scope and Contents Baraga received the Bishop's letter of Aug. 30 and also one from the Archbishop of Vienna who notified him that $300.- have been sent to him. Baraga took notice that Bishop Lefevere used the $300.- as a down payment for the $400.- which he said to Mr. Crooks for Baraga, also that the Bishop is endeavouring to get the $300.- of government annuity for him. Baraga thanks the Bishop and begs him to assist him further, as he has hardly any other income than what he receives from Europe. The...

Scope and Contents The printing of Baraga's Indian books is finished and they were printed in two dialects: in Ottawa and Chippewa. Baraga received 2408 francs for them. The council of Association of the Propagation of Faith consented to pay the expenses and may also pay the bookbinder which will amount to about 1300 francs. If the council does not pay for them, he will try to have them done somewhere else. In Detroit, the printing of these books would cost at least $1200. The members of the council are...

Scope and Contents Baraga asks Bishop rese to bring a chalice with him as he had left his chalice, which he had brought from his own country, at Grand River. Baraga arrived in Mackinaw on June 10 at 4 a.m. and has already found an opportunity to go to L'Arbre Croche. There he will wait for the Bishop. Father hopes that the Bishop will decide that the poor Indians on Lake Superior who have wanted a missionary for such a long time, will finally have their request granted. He is afraid that these Indians might...

Scope and Contents Father Baraga gives a short account of the money which the late Bishop Edward Fenwick had given him for his mission in August, 1831. The sum was $250 - and in Detroit the Bishop had left $200 - for printing expenses of the Indian prayer book. He also gave Madame Marianne Lasaliere Fisher $50 personally. Those $250 were the first money Father Baraga had received in America. He had to buy many things in Detroit for the mission, church and school, nothing for himself. He urges Rese to go to the...

Scope and Contents Baraga received Father V. Badin's letter of August 26 on October 1st. He thanks him for sending him the church bell but he thanks him especially in the name of all the Indians of L'Arbre croche who are very happy to hear their bell again. Upon the advice of the bookbinder-Brother Alois Schuh-Baraga had not sent the pages which are missing from the Ottawa books to Father V. Badin, but once he had sent 40 bound Ottawa books to Father Louis Deseille and another time 10 more. Baraga advises...

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Father Baraga left Detroit on October 21, was in Buffalo on the 24th and saw the Niagara Falls on the 25th. On the 26th he left Buffalo and arrived in New York on the 30th. He will take the mail boat "John Taylor" to Liverpool on November 1st, getting "second cabin" at the moderate price of #20 - without food. Father intends to write regularly from Europe and he begs the Bishop to give the news he writes also to his friends and to Martha Tanner. :: III-2-g A.L.S. French 1p.

Scope and Contents Father Baraga left New York November 3, and not on the 1st as it was announced. The trip took only 23 1/2 days to Liverpool. From Liverpool to London, he took the train as he wanted to see England. He spent only seven days in England. On December 7, he arrived in Paris. He immediately looked for Father Abbott Perreau, whom he found to be like a real father. He can hardly enumerate all this good Abbot has done for him. Baraga's mission affairs are getting along nicely. The council of the...

Scope and Contents Father Baraga had promised his Indians to be back at Lake Superior in 10 months so he hastens his trip as fast as he can. Besides he has accomplished the twofold purpose of his trip: to have his Indian books printed in Paris and to collect money for his mission. He is satisfied with the results. He arrived in Paris on May 8. He heard that Mr. Picot had received a letter from Bishop rese in which it is stated that the Bishop intends to leave Detroit at the end of April to come to Paris and...

Scope and Contents Baraga not only relates his troubles and afflictions, but he complains bitterly that the Bishop had not sent him even one consoling word when he needed so much encouragement. The mission has been established on the American side and the house will be finished in a few weeks, but he has no teachers for the school. Besides, he must have money to support the persons belonging to the mission, to buy whatever is needed, for without money nothing is given to the mission. He implores the Bishop to...

Scope and Contents Baraga expresses his worry about the fate of the Indians who live in Grand-River. The Bishop sent him to Grand-River expressly to establish a mission on the border of the Indian territory. Accordingly, Baraga had begun to build this mission on Indian territory. The lumber for the priest's house and schoolhouse is already cut and delivered to the place which Baraga chose for his mission. The workmen were ready to begin their work but Baraga stopped them because he had heard that the Indian...

Scope and Contents Baraga sends Father Badin $5, and he asks him to send them and another banknote to the editors of the Catholic Herald in Philadelphia for a two year subscription. Baraga's trip home is very slow. He had to wait nine days in Mackinac, and in Sault he will have to wait fifteen days before he can depart. Baraga wants all the news he can get about Bishop Rese and about Badin himself. He also asks that Sister Marie Therese be told that he could not find the relics among the things he brought back...