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Scope and Contents Rousselon will be as surprised as Duffo was when he reads the enclosed note. This peculiar summons was given him by the sheriff of Natchitoches. According to the note. Duffo seems to be a creditor of Father Anthony Désiré Mégret . As he recalls, he was rather his debtor, at least for a good dinner, though meager, more than 4 years ago at his Vermillionville presbytery. Joking aside, Duffo has concluded that the creditors want to consider him as the proprietor of the church funds during his...

Scope and Contents Duffo has been at Lafayette for 3 or 4 days, since last Saturday, Christmas eve. He left the preceding Monday and took the mail boat. The boat was stuck on the sand almost 3 days and nights. He finally got to his temporary post. The confessional was not crowded on Christmas eve. The weather was very bad; the next day there were only 15 present including the Sisters of Mount Carmel ?. Everyone did not know there was a priest in the parish and especially the fear of the epidemic is...

Scope and Contents Blanc wished to have news from time to time during the days Duffo will spend at Lafayette . Nothing new, baptisms, burials, catechism. They are beginning to come back from the fear which kept them from the church. Father Ange Marie Jan, whom Duffo saw recently, thinks that Father Stephen Rousselon is perhaps on his way to Attakapas. If Duffo did not fear that Rousselon was gone, he would have written him in order to spare Blanc. Emile Veasey does not seem satisfied; Duffo can imagine that he...

Scope and Contents Emile brought Rousselon's letter dated March? 28; Emile returned more content than ever, they are great friends. Rousselon dissipated all the clouds. No one can accuse Emile of lacking goodness of heart but he sometimes gets excited. In a moment, Duffo will leave for St. Martin; Emile offers to accompany him. Father Ange Marie Jan will be here tomorrow. Rousselon no doubt knows his itinerary. Bishop Augustus Marie Martin leaves Natchitoches Easter Tuesday; Father Anthony J. Jourdant, S.J....

Scope and Contents In compliance with Odin's request he furnishes the following, statistics of the institution of their parish. Redemptorist Convent: Duffy, Rector; Father Alexander Cvitkovicz, C.SS.R., Father F., Lutte, C.SS.R., Father William V. Meredith, C.SS.R., Father, James M. Jacobs, C.SS.R., Father James Sheeran, C.SS.R., Father, Alfred De Hamm, C.SS.R., and 6 lay brothers. Churches: St., Alphonsus, Assumption, Notre Dame de Bon Secour; Schools: St., Alphonsus School, 1150 boys and girls; St. Mary's...

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According to his promise he incloses a list of seven periodicals which may be found in their library. :: XI-1-e A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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He extends his sympathy to McMaster over the illness of the latter's son, Alphonsus. He expresses the sentiments of Father Freitag that Our Lord will hear the many prayers that are being offered up for the recovery of Alphonsus McMaster. Father Duffy hopes that McMaster may see his son grow up to be as good a man as his father is and prayers that God will sustain him in this time of trial and affliction. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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At present there remains $17 of the debt which the congregation owed. Duffy was astonished to hear that he was so far gone in consumption. His health is slowly improving. Mr. Jamison invited him to visit him in Baltimore; he intended going to Cincinnati to get permission for Duffy. During six months of the year he says two Masses on Sunday, during the other half of the year the roads are so bad that people cannot hear Mass in town. :: II-5-a A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Duffy submits two poems. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 1p. 16mo.

Scope and Contents Seeing by the paper that some of Blanc's priests have died and others prostrated by the epidemic, Duffy offers himself to Blanc as a subject. He cannot speak French with any fluency but he can read and translate it. He came to this country from Maynooth College with Bishop Michael O'Connor and remained with him for 7 years, part of which time he was superior of the seminary in Pittsburgh. The confinement and smoke not agreeing with his health, Duffy came to the West. For the last year he has...

Scope and Contents Blanc will recollect that he received Duffy as a subject in November 1853 and sent him to Yazoo City to take the place of Father Julian M. Guillou, prostrated by yellow fever. Subsequently Blanc gave up his claim to Duffy's services in favor of the late Bishop Vandevelde. Duffy left the diocese of Natchez in February 1855; he did not ask for an exeat as he had determined to retire for some time from the world for a review of his past life. With this view he came here to the Augustinian...

Scope and Contents Duffy arrived here yesterday; he found Father Julian Guillou? Guillot very low. It will be some time before he will be able to go to Orleans. He has been in bed 6 weeks and does not seem to rally from his late attack of yellow fever. The priest of Jackson is also sick; Father Richard Hardey had a dispatch on Sunday to visit him. The epidemic still prevails; one death and 5 new cases today. Some of the citizens who had returned are again going to the country. 52 Catholics died here; a large...

Scope and Contents Blanc's favor of the 11th reached Duffy day before yesterday. His health has been very good since he came to Yazoo. Father Julian Guillou is now able to sit up and hopes to go to Orleans in a couple of weeks. Physicians are of the opinion that he will never be fit for active duty, one of his lungs being badly affected. Duffy has not heard from Bishop James Oliver Vandevelde since the Bishop's arrival in Natchez. He has made no proposal to Duffy as yet in reference to remaining in his...

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She is at a loss to find words to express gratitude for the gift. It will always be cherised as a loving remembrance. :: XI-1-l A.L.S. 2pp.

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A circular letter from the Supreme Trustees of the Catholic Knights of America informs the officers and members of the Catholic Knights that the Supreme Secretary's and Supreme Treasurer's books, papers and moneys have been examined and found accurate and in order. Enclosure: The Monthly Bulletin of the Catholic Knights of America, Vol. II, No. 2. Dated Lebanon, Kentucky, Nov. 30, 1886. :: I-2-j Printed form letter 12mo.

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He thanks him for the anniversary telegram. He invites Edwards to stay overnight with them. :: XI-1-m A.L.S. 1p.

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In moving some of his papers from the City Hall he found the enclosed documents relating to the Catholic Congress. One is the first copy of the first call and a letter from Maj. Henry F. Brownson written on the plan of the Congress while it was still in embryo. The other is a list of persons to whom the published proceedings were sent. :: XI-1-i A.L.S. 1p. 8vo.

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A poor Irish student at the seminary at Rome, Duffy asks Onahan's financial help. Onahan may write to Monsignor Fancelli for reference. He will offer his prayers in return.

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At the request of Mrs. D. O'Laughlin, Duffy writes for her marriage certificate. Her husband was killed at the Battle of Nashville. She wants the certificate to get her pension. She was married in New Orleans in 1849 by Father Moynihan? Murahan. Margaret O'Healy was her maiden name; Denis O'Laughlin her husband's name. Odin will confer a blessing on a family of nine small children who are almost helpless. :: VI-2-i A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.

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Dufour received Blanc's letter last night. He regrets that an article in the papers worried the friends of Sister Francis Regis, S.C. . No doubt it was the report about Poydras Asylum . The administrators of that establishment ask that their properties be exempt from all taxes, something not constitutional. Sister's petition has been very favorably received and Dufour is certain that he can bring the question to the end Blanc desires. :: V-5-m A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents All goes as usual here except that part of Pont Breaux about which Dufour spoke in his letter sent by Father Anthony Désiré Mégret Maigret. It is the habitués of the tavern and billiard hall who make up this anti-church group. Since Blanc's visit Dufour asked two men to take charge of the pews and repairs. After paying debts and buying a new vestment and a ciborium, Dufour gave a public account and remarked that the reason there was money left in the treasury was because he had never taken...

Scope and Contents The weather had made it impossible to go as far as Lafayette; he arrived only today. He found the same person and the same things. He delivered his letters; the one of the Bishop struck the hardest since it was the exact truth although tempered by the wisdom and the temperament acquired by the habit of governing. Dufour tried to get to the bottom of all the complaints. He saw that there was more of man in him than of God. As for the Sisters of Mount Carmel? his fancy is, as Rousselon feared,...

Scope and Contents Dufour received Blanc's letter sent through Father John Boullier, C.M. Bouillé on arriving in Paris; he was glad to see Bouillé and to talk about Louisiana. The poor man will regret it all his life; he is making a difficult sacrifice to obedience by remaining in his cell in Sevres Street. He said yesterday that they had spoken about his being a chaplain on a French frigate leaving for Valparaiso and California. Dufour also met Bishop John Timon, who is bringing 20 priests, not counting the...

Scope and Contents Unforeseen circumstances are the cause of his long silence. Just when he wanted to leave, Dufour's brother fell ill and died. He was the father of a young family. Dufour returned here toward Christmas. He went here and there preaching and giving retreats, always with the refrain why put off returning to his "savages." Dufour would have been gone a month ago, if he had not wanted to wait for the Franklin which will leave for Newark on March 7. So he should be with Blanc in the first days of...

Scope and Contents Dufour received Blanc's letter written before he left for the council. He has not written because he had gone to his family to arrange his affairs and he wanted to see how his health would be. He consulted Dr. Recamier who said that Dufour could not be exposed this year to the same things which had so damaged his health. Recamier prescribed a severe regime under which Dufour is doing well. Nothing has modified his disgust for what is happening in France, nor his inclination toward his...

Scope and Contents Dufour has reread Blanc's letter; a new prize for him is that it was written from St. Martin. When Dufour had completed his family business and returned to Paris, seeing all the disturbance, he finally left for England. But the climate gave him a perpetual cold, he returned here. He has recovered his old agility and gaiety. But his heart is in the missions, especially the last in Louisiana. He has not the means to live independently and he is not inclined to ecclesiastical honors and...

Scope and Contents Blanc will be surprised to read the writing of one returned from the other world as he knows Blanc thought he had gone to the second or third heaven. Dufour wrote some time after his arrival in Havana but had no reply. Meeting a missionary who boasted of the climate of the Antilles and told how much a French missionary was wanted by Bishop Daniel McDonnell, Dufour decided to go there. He was very well received by the two bishops and French confreres, Father Bertin and Father Poirier, a...

Scope and Contents Dufour wrote the Bishop 10 days ago. Since then a letter from St. Martin saying that Judge Simon, in order to send the money for Dufour's slave, was waiting for the paper he had given him. Rousselon is to take the money. He is also to write to Mr. Dumartray Adrien Dumartrait? to send the money which he and Valsaint? have received for him and send it all together. He has nothing to add to the letter he wrote the Bishop. Here everyone is concerned with the affairs of the pope. V-5-k - A.L.S. -...

Scope and Contents Dufour received Blanc's last letter yesterday. He appreciates the observations Blanc has made on the organization of parishes. In the meantime he has seen some people from Bayou Goula who confirm what Blanc says that they want a pastor for themselves. Blanc has no definite decision about Plaquemine . Dufour adds two thoughts. His health has never been so bad. He has consulted Dr. Labatut ; other miseries replace the ones that are cured. The doctors agree that the humidity is his worst enemy....

Scope and Contents Dufour wrote last night to tell Blanc that Father Lombart had arrived and that Dufour installed him at the High Mass which Lombart sang. He took Blanc's letters to their addresses and these men came yesterday to hold their first council. After vespers many ladies came to congratulate him. Dufour presented Lombart at Mr. Petit 's house during the evening. Before leaving to go to bed, Lombart said he saw that the people down here are not bad. This morning he told Dufour that he did not think...