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Scope and Contents DeNeve received the order enclosed in Odin's letter of April 21. He has credited Odin with $1,500. He is satisfied with the 2 young men studying here for Odin's archdiocese. Yves C. Rivoallan of St. Brieuc is a subdeacon; he should study another year. According to instructions from Rome there should be no trouble in having him come to Odin's seminary if Odin wishes it. DeNeve has done his best to form Alexandre Méhault and his efforts have not been in vain. His illness probably played a...

Scope and Contents He delayed answering because he was waiting for an answer to his question about Thomas Broderick's bills. Can he charge Father Tierny? Father H. DeRegge has arrived and given him McFarland's letter of January 8. He gives DeRegge Nos. 88-94 to take to America and assures the printer that McFarland's subscription continues. It is impossible to send a priest to Father F. DeBruycker. He is grateful for suggestions for the good of the college. If the theologians were better known Gratry would...

Scope and Contents DeNeve acknowledges McFarland's letter of July 30. Father Edward J. Cooney and Father Patrick Mulholland were ordained August 17. DeNeve showed them McFarland's letter requesting them to spend only two weeks seeing their friends in Ireland but he is uneasy not to learn of their departure. McFarland's letter of August 21 with the draft was also received. The amount was credited to McFarland's account; he hopes to find him a nice German priest besides Princen. He will send his account after...

Scope and Contents DeNeve acknowledges McFarland's letter of August 18 in answer to his of August 10. McFarland's indebtedness to the American College at Louvain at the beginning of the scholastic year was 171.10 francs. The mother of Father E.J. Vanlaan has repaid the money advanced to him. DeNeve is forced to raise the pension to $600; since the cattle plague, prices made $500 inadequate. Mullholland and Cooney are deacons now. They could be ready by about August for the sacred ministry. If he is to keep...

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He wishes him a happy new year and asks a prayer in Rome. He forwards a letter he has just received from the father of Father DeBruycker requesting him to pay board and tuition of Mr. Broderick and to charge it to McFarland. He asks a reply. So far Fagan and Creedon are doing pretty well. A.L.S. 1p. Enclosure:

Scope and Contents He acknowledges the letter of McFarland of December 18 and the draft and the same amount from Certes in Paris. This year he has 37 students. He has been saving a room for the man mentioned in McFarland's letter but he has received no application yet and has presumed he will not come this year. He asks that McFarland tell him what kind of subjects and how many the diocese will need in the next two or three years and how many pensions McFarland will agree to pay. He has a very good priest...

Scope and Contents DeNeve acknowledges McFarland's letter of July 23. He immediately sent word to Mulholland and Cooney on what terms they are received. From their letter he fears that they are not far advanced, but they will try. They will expect in due time the young student, Byrne. He hopes the Bishop will impress on him that he is to acquire not only knowledge but the piety of the ecclesiastical spirit, and that he should take the occasion to learn German and French. DeNeve has been in Gand and spoke of...

Scope and Contents DeNeve thanks Lefevere for his letter brought by James Wheeler. He will arrange his business with Certes and will send at the first opportunity an adjustment of accounts. He has placed young Wheeler and John McManus McMannus in College. Father Henry Delbaere should have arrived in America. He has a good head but his exterior habits leave much to be desired. He is too absent-minded. This letter will introduce Fathers John Busche and Henry Beerhorst, two excellent workers for Detroit diocese....

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DeNeve encloses Lefevere's bill for the American College of Louvain. He tries to get as much as possible to ease the burden on the Diocese. The next house is to be sold at auction October 11. DeNeve is bound to have it under 50,000 francs. Archbishop Martin John Spalding has subscribed $1,000 and wishes to become a patron for Baltimore. The Bishop of Ghent has just died. DeNeve will attend the funeral as a means of getting the protection of the new bishop. :: III-2-k A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents DeNeve has delayed telling Lefevere of the improvements of the American College of Louvain. In addition to the College grounds, DeNeve has bought a large house and garden for $42,500. With taxes, notary's fees, etc., it will come to $50,000. In order to pay it Bishop Augustine M.S. Blanchet, Bishop Francis P. McFarland, Bishop John Timon, Bishop Modest Demers, each gave $5250. Louisville subscribed $1000 and in prospect, Baltimore and New Orleans $10,500. Next Pentecost, James Pulcher will...

Scope and Contents Tomorrow Father John Ehrenstrasser, an excellent priest from Salzbourg, leaves the American Seminary for the Detroit Diocese. He will remain until October, He has no dimissorials, only permission to see America, and may return to his own diocese whenever he desires. DeNeve hopes Lefevere can find a place for him. His board at the American College of Louvain is 300 francs, for his voyage 750 francs. If Lefevere does not want him, he could seek out another diocese. DeNeve is pleased at...

Scope and Contents DeNeve refers to his letters of Feb. 23 and Apr. 11 to Lefevere. In, conformance with Lefevere's wish expressed in the letter of Father, Bernard G. Soffers, DeNeve has called Cornelius M. Korst to the, priesthood. He and Father Bernard Wermers will come in a few, weeks. Detroit will thus have 3 new priests this year. DeNeve trembles, when he sees young people, so unworthy, coming to seek orders in, America. He asks Lefevere not to admit to orders any European young, man without the necessary...

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DeNeve lists Lefevere's credits and debits with the American, College at Louvain for 1864 and 1865. DeNeve would like to give, O'Donovan to Detroit but unless expenses are paid he cannot. ` P.S. He has 45 students. :: III-2-k A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

Scope and Contents De Neve is happy to have at last received the news. It is difficult to get credit so long as his money remains a year in Paris and he is not authorized to negotiate loans. He has not received anything for Detroit since Sept. 6, 1864. Adolphe Certes has written Lefevere that he would send money to De Neve, but objects to any future agreement. De Neve will send his report at the end of the scholastic year of the American College at Louvain . As regards priests; there are at present two in the...

Scope and Contents The students secured for Detroit in the American College of Louvain are: Father Francis O'Flanagan, born Oughteragh County, Leitrim, Ireland, a priest; Father James C. Pulcher, born Jefferson County, New York, a priest; Michael O'Donovan, born Clonakilty, Ireland, in the second year of theology; Thomas Rafter, born Monrce, Michigan; Joseph Kraemer, born in Laudershore, parish Carweilen, Prussia, beginning theology; and James Wheeler from Kalamazoo whose baptismal certificate has not been...

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He encloses a letter from his friend and benefactor of the American College in Louvain . He asks Lefevere to send him a few lines, and DeNeve will pay all expense; he asks a few lines to George Schwarz recommending the college. They have retreat on Aug. 9, ordinations at Mechlin on the 16th and 17th. Bishop Modeste Demers has been with them for a week, and Bishop Martin John Spalding for 2 days; he is now with Father James Pulsers at Haaren. Enclosure:

Scope and Contents He encloses bill No. 7 of Lefevere's account with the American College of Louvain . He expresses thanks for the favor Father Henry Rievers sent him; it gives him an opportunity to explain how the gentlemen who caused Lefevere to grieve are bad informers. If all were explained, Lefevere would not want Father James Arnold Princen ; Gerard Van der Plas has not paid for his board; it is uncertain whether Janssens goes to America. DeNeve will try to send a priest for Redford because under the...

Scope and Contents Lefevere will recall that DeNeve is separated from him; he has been torn from a congregation which he loves as the apple of his eye, in order to devote himself to Lefevere's desires and to take the direction of a house where he has found little consolation. He refers to Father Peter Kindekens ' change, his account of the college, the recall of Father August Durst . Every day De Neve waits for a letter from Lefevere to end a sad state of affairs. The future of the college, DeNeve has no doubt...

Scope and Contents DeNeve imagines that Father Peter Kindekens, whom he hopes has arrived safely, will have reported on the situation of the seminary and that he will have called Lefevere's attention to certain characteristics of Father August Durst which should be considered before his appointment. DeNeve regrets this in spite of the formal declaration which Durst made to him at Anvers. Durst has left debts in Europe, if DeNeve is to believe the accounts sent him. There are three students for Detroit: John...

Scope and Contents DeNeve is happy to give Lefevere very good news of the American College of Louvain. His expenses are $38,025,76, his receipts $41, 094.77, but the seminary is burdened with some intentions of perpetual Masses. The two new houses DeNeve bought are in his name and in the name of three other priests assigned by the bishop of Ghent Louis Joseph Delebecque. Father Peter Kindekens has kept the property of the first house. DeNeve has no objection to that; still it is against the advice Lefevere had...

Scope and Contents He acknowledges receipt of the draft of $1,560 which is credited to the American College of Louvain. When Lefevere's letter reached him, DeNeve had already drawn on Lefevere for 190 francs which Father John Cappon was to hand over to Lefevere. DeNeve has received 100 francs for Father Charles Ryckaert, which Lefevere will please pay as DeNeve has written him in the enclosed letter no enclosure. DeNeve is happy to receive Lefevere's letter, not so much for the draft as for the importance...

Scope and Contents February 21, DeNeve sent Father John Cappon a draft for 190 francs which he credited to Lefevere. DeNeve's last letter of March 21 had a draft for 100 francs to Father Charles Ryckaert. He acknowledges receipt of a second draft for 1560. The joint letter of Lefevere and Bishop Martin John Spalding will be sent this week to Rome. It would be extremely useful to say a word on the need of priests in their diocese when Lefevere writes directly to Cardinal Alexander Barnabo. He could write a...

Scope and Contents DeNeve is presenting two deacons for the priesthood; they will be ordained tomorrow at Malines. They are Ferdinand Allgayer of Ravensberg, Wurtemburg, and John Friedland, a Prussian. He hopes they will arrive towards the end of November or the beginning of December. They wish to visit their parents, and to have acquaintances furnish them equipment necessary for mission work. It is useless to give Lefevere news of the College, as Father Peter Koopmans, Father John Van Gennip and the bearer of...

Scope and Contents DeNeve acknowledges Lefevere's letters of November 14. Father Edmund Dumont arrived. He hopes to send 2 priests more to Detroit this year: Edward Van Lauwe a deacon preparing for a degree in theology, and Father Florimond de Bruycker, who has been DeNeve's assistant for 2 years, although de Bruycker is having difficulty to come to a decision in the matter. The American College at Louvain is going on first rate; he has his own professor of Scripture, one of English and German, 2 professors...

Scope and Contents DeNeve acknowledges Lefevere's favors of Nov. 14 and Nov. 22 and the copy enclosed. He has come to the following conclusions: 1. To send Lefevere a copy of the deed of the part of the American College at Louvain DeNeve was able to buy. He consulted the best lawyers in Belgium and in accordance with the Bishop of Ghent Louis Joseph Delebecque, who pointed out the 3 gentlemen whose names are in the deed; ~ Document ~ 2. To send Lefevere a copy of the conditions under which DeNeve collected and...

Scope and Contents DeNeve wrote Lefevere on February 6 and March 11. There is in the American College at Louvain a young German, Henry Beerhorst who has made little success in philosophy. DeNeve was about to dismiss him when professors at the University advised him to give Beerhorst another year of trial. DeNeve has done so but theology has been a failure and now DeNeve is reluctant to send him to his family, after 2 years away at his own expense, he fears to present him for orders because he lacks the...

Scope and Contents DeNeve hopes Lefevere has received his letters of March 12 and 23, of April 10 and 23. The difficulties as expressed in his last letter have been cleared up by the university's doctors. As DeNeve received no answer, he acted as he had told Lefevere. DeNeve gives a report of the American College at Louvain for 1861-62. The College, thanks to donations, has 38 rooms. Bishops John Timon, Francis P. McFarland, James Duggan, Michael O'Connor, John Laughlin visited the College and expressed...

Scope and Contents Copy of the deed of the part of the American College purchased with the money of Father Camillus Paul? Maes, and conditions under which the money was given. Before a Notary of Louvain, 4 undersigned witnessed the legal transfer of the property. The purchasers are listed including DeNeve, and its location with reference to other holdings given. In a footnote DeNeve gives the conditions under which Canon Maes offers his donation, such as Masses to be said. ` A.L.S. French 4pp. 8vo. :: III-2-j...

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Limpens, a very good student, a Bachelor of Theology, would be able to take a Licentiate of Theology, if Lefevere thinks proper to prepare some that may become Professors; DeNeve would be willing to pay Limpens' expenses. DeNeve complains of the poor service of the mail: he wrote Lefevere on September 26, sending him 3 Mass Intentions to be said by a Bishop on the request of the petitioners. Did Lefevere receive them and say them? ` A.L.S. 1p. :: III-2-j A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents DeNeve thanks Lefevere for his letter of March 10; he has taken steps to carry out his wishes. Mr. Certes has promised to honor Lefevere's draft; then DeNeve will write to Rumbelle? Or Dumortier. Father Gustave Limpens was ordained the second day of Easter week having obtained the necessary dispensations. He will leave with Father Louis Vanden driessche and perhaps Father Louis Baroux. Vanden driessche can be placed wherever Lefevere sees fit; he believes Limpens should not be placed...