Scope and Contents Pierz received Lefevere's letter of July 30 containing the draft for $150. The report of the schools and the neames of the pupils are enclosed in this letter. Pierz put only 3 schools and 4 teachers in this report, since Kosewag, the teacher at Middletown, was so negligent that Pierz had teach school there. Pierz is surprised to be reproached by Lefevere for the 5 new teachers and new schools established without Lefevere's permission, since Pierz expected to please Lefevere by doing so. If...

Scope and Contents Pierz is back form a visit to the missions as far as Machkigong and sends Lefevere a report of his trip. From Kachagens-Ondibaning to Machkigong, Pierz did not meet very many Catholics, but he visited 40 pagan families now becoming Catholics. He baptized only the babies and a few adults because he did not have sufficient time to stay longer. All these savages promised Pierz to come to Grand Traverse or Kachagens Ondibaning, the home of their parents who are now Catholics, where he will...

Scope and Contents Pierz tells Lefevere that he received the letter of Sept. 18 with $150 check on the Michigan bank. Pierz will send the receipt from Margaret as soon as he is able to cash his check and pay her. Pierz includes the report concerning the school at Little Traverse and of the private schools which he understands Lefevere will have to send to the government. Pierz sends statistics in French concerning the education of the savages. Lefevere should translate and publish them in English, and can make...

Scope and Contents The situation in the mission is such that Pierz has to take the side of the savages. Indeed, in the treaty of 1836 the government gave $300,000 for the payments of the debts. After all the debts were paid $72,000 was left over. But the merchants tried to get the remaining funds by getting the savages into more debts. Last fall the merchants petitioned the government at Washington to pay all their claims concerning the debts of the savages. These merchants paid several chiefs to put their...

Scope and Contents For 12 years Pierz has been in the mission of the Ottawa Nation at Little Traverse in the state of Michigan. He is doing everything possible for the instruction and the welfare of the savages and he regards the savages as his own children and is interested in their spiritual and temporal welfare. The merchants in this part of the country are trying with all their evil forces to persuade the savages to sign a petition to the government to pay their debts with government funds. Many chiefs...

Scope and Contents Pierz received the $200 that Lefevere sent through Biddel and Brew. As soon as he received the money he paid all the teachers. He asks Lefevere if he received the triplicates of the receipts signed by the teachers. Pierz did not see the teacher of his school at Manistee, and he did not include this school in his report because of the lack of Indians to carry on the school the right way. It is preferable to include publicly only the 3 schools of Arbre Croche, Lacroix and Middletown in the...

Scope and Contents Pierz received Lefevere's letter of July 16 containing a note for $92. Pierz is very grateful to Lefevere for sending him some money, because he is in a serious obligation to pay the workers. Today Pierz drew $242.50 from Blanchard in the name of Lefevere like he authorized Pierz to do. He asks Lefevere to pay back Blanchard as soon as the $500 from the Leopoldine Association for him arrives in the hands of Lefevere. Pierz will send the receipts of the school teachers as soon as he is back...

Scope and Contents Lefevere came to Mackinac on his way back from Lake Superior hoping to find Lefevere, but he was told that Lefevere had to go to Detroit on some important business. Pierz writes this letter to tell Lefevere how much pleased he is with the mission at Mackinac and la Pointe St. Ignace ; the churches are well kept and the priest is loved by all the Christians. Consequently the Parish wants Lefevere to let the present priest remain as long as it is possible. They plan to build a new church in...

Scope and Contents Pierz says that in his mission the savages fear an epidemic of small-pox. It is for this reason that Pierz had to come to Mackinac to get the serum to vaccinate them. But here in Mackinac there is not any good serum. Consequently, Pierz asks Lefevere to send him the drug and he will pay him out of his salary. This is very urgent. At the same time Pierz asks Lefevere to give him an answer to his last letter and to send him some money through the Bank in Michigan. Indeed, he needs the money to...

Scope and Contents Pierz sends Lefevere a report concerning the missions. By railway and stage coach it took Pierz 32 hours to go from Detroit to Grand Rapids. But Pierz found out that Viszocky was absent at an affiliated mission and that Father Charles De Ceuminck was sick with a fever. Consequently, Pierz had to say Mass and to give a sermon in the new church. De Ceuminck is a good priest but somewhat exuberant. He engages laborers to complete the church at a very high salary without consulting Father Andrew...

Scope and Contents Pierz received the order from Lefevere to go at once to Mackinac to take care of Piret's mission. But the weather was so bad that Pierz was unable to make it. Consequently, he arrived at Mackinac only on Jan 28. He was received nicely by the Indians and he is very happy. In leaving Little Traverse, Pierz asked Father Ignatius Mrak to take care of Arbre Croche and Cheboygan. Mrak, Pierz says, accepted because Father A Van Pamel is for the time being at Grand Traverse. The Chief of Grand Grand...

Scope and Contents Pierz sends Lefevere a receipt for the teacher Margeret Kabegijigokive whom he paid last January. Pierz paid the teachers of the private schools, but he did ask them for the receipts, since it is not necessary to send any report to the government. In case Lefevere wants them Pierz will send them. In Mackinac he is in a good health and he is well treated. The people in Mackinac are well satisfied with Pierz, since they come to church every night. Everybody goes to confession here and at La...

Scope and Contents Pierz writes a letter to give supplementary information concerning the school's report he sent Sept. 9. Since the Indians signed the pledge there is little drinking although a few still do so. Pierz tries hard to stop all Christians from drinking, but there are two drunkards who signed their pledge but still are drinking like Pagans. Pierz threatened them with excommunication. It should be necessary to punish such scandals very energetically for the good of the Catholic Church. Pierz wishes...

Scope and Contents Pierz came with his savages to Mackinac, where the savages are freezing on the shore for now 2 weeks waiting for the payment up to this day. After waiting such a long time Pierz just received a letter from Lefevere with a $100 check. He thanks Lefevere for his goodness. Lefevere did not realise Pierz's hope by covering the expenses of the mission. But Pierz Believes that Lefevere will satisfy Pierz as soon as he can. $113 are still missing from $600 salary Pierz receives yearly. He does not...

Scope and Contents Father Pierz received Bishop Lefevere's letter of Sept.2, and came to Mackinac at the first opportunity to accept whatever the Bishop sent him and to obey the Bishop's command. But he got the Bishop's letter too late, and Father Otto Skolla had already engaged the services of Miss Taner for his school at Mackinac, and accepted also the services of Hamlin, a young man for the school at La Pointe de St. Ignace. By mistake, Skolla took both furnaces to his schools. Pierz took the one from the...

Scope and Contents Pierz sends his school report with 5 receipts as they agreed in preceeding letters and hopes that Lefevere and the government will be satisfied with the quality of the report. Pierz arrived at Mackinac several days ago and is very busy hearing confessions and instructing for baptism and any other sacraments. Father J.B. Proulx from Courtoreil Island helped Pierz and Father Otho Skolla said Mass on two consecutive Sundays at Pointe de St. Ignace. Yesterday, Pierz baptized 21 converts. He does...

Scope and Contents Father Pierz received on March 27 a letter dated March 21, 1837 from a merchant of New York a Mr. Kreudger, who informs him that his effects were not burned, but that he had sent them from New York on October 22, 1835 to the address of the Bihsop. If the Bishop has not received them or has not heard anything about them, Pierz is firmly resolved to look for them himself and also for a little box which was sent from Europe but never arrived. He asks the Bishop to give him the written...

Scope and Contents Father Pierz received from Mackinac a package containing 18 English and French books, which are very welcome to his school children. He supposes that the Bishop had sent him the package and he thanks him for it. He received also a letter from a good friend from Europe dated November 16, 1835 in which is mentioned the shipment of a little box, marked P. no. 451, 9 pounds with different presents to the Indians, but he has not yet received it. He hopes it is on the big ship which is to arrive...

Scope and Contents Father Pierz received from Mackinac a package containing 18 English and French books, which are very welcome to his school children. He supposes that the Bishop had sent him the package and he thanks him for it. He received also a letter from a good friend from Europe dated November 16, 1835 in which is mentioned the shipment of a little box, marked P.no. 451, 9 pounds with different presents to the Indians, but he has not yet received it. He hopes it is on the big ship which is to arrive in...

Scope and Contents Father Pierz received from Mackinac a package containing 18 English and French books, which are very welcome to his school children. He supposes that the Bishop had sent him the package and he thanks him for it. He received also a letter from a good friend from Europe dated November 16, 1835 in which is mentioned the shipment of a little box, marked P.no. 451, 9 pounds with different presents to the Indians, but he has not yet received it. He hopes it is on the big ship which is to arrive in...

Scope and Contents Father Pierz received from Mackinac a package containing 18 English and French books, which are very welcome to his school children. He supposes that the Bishop had sent him the package and he thanks him for it. He received also a letter from a good friend from Europe dated November 16, 1835 in which is mentioned the shipment of a little box, marked P.no. 451, 9 pounds with different presents to the Indians, but he has not yet received it. He hopes it is on the big ship which is to arrive in...

Scope and Contents Father Pierz received from Mackinac a package containing 18 English and French books, which are very welcome to his school children. He supposes that the Bishop had sent him the package and he thanks him for it. He received also a letter from a good friend from Europe dated November 16, 1835 in which is mentioned the shipment of a little box, marked P.no. 451, 9 pounds with different presents to the Indians, but he has not yet received it. He hopes it is on the big ship which is to arrive in...

Scope and Contents Mr. Ord, agent of the savages at Sault, received from the government a new form in which the missions are to give their annual report of the Indian Mission Schools. Pierz took a copy for himself and sends one to the Bishop as head of them missions and schools. He must present reports of Arbre Croche's, Lacroix's and Middletown's schools to the agent of Mackinac and of Sault Ste. Marie's school to the agent of Sault. He is disturbed about what he should say in the column about the allotment...

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He feels that he is innocent in the matter of printing a book which was already copyrighted. Hudson is more to blame than he because the book was advertised in various Catholic publications which Hudson receives and he should have notified him that it was copyrighted. :: X-2-g A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Piet sends Hudson a new catalogue. The loud cry raised against the high retail prices of Catholic books has determined Piet to place their books at a proper market value. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

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Piet has received Hudson's letter of March 6. He informs Hudson that his partner has died and he is having trouble getting business adjusted. He has sent the Dublin Review for January and will send the Inner Life of Lacordaiye in a few days. Piet hopes to have matters organized soon. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. crown 8 vo

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Piet forwards an article announcing his retirement from the Baltimore Publishing Company which he asks Hudson to reprint in the Ave Maria. Since the death of Dennis Sadlier he is the oldest Catholic bookseller, excepting Patrick Donahue of Boston, in the United States. He began his career with John Murphy in 1844. Piet is proud of his management of the Catholic Mirror. :: X-2-o A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

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Assured, through reading the "Ave Maria", of the charitable and Catholic spirit of Father Hudson, he asks Hudson to republish in the magazine an appeal for the relief of the suffering nuns in Italy. He encloses a pamphlet containing the Appeal and also a slip containing notice of what has been effected in the diocese of Toronto in this cause. No enclosures. :: X-2-g A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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He is in good health and hopes that McMaster is the same. He tried his best to get new subscribers but has not succeeded. Catholics will take political papers especially those against Don Carlos but refuse to read a Catholic paper. He will send his subscription after the New Year and may have a few others. :: I-2-a A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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Miss Mary A. Watts an accomplished music teacher and organist, is taking up residence in Providence and at her request he introduces her. She is the only Catholic in her family. :: I-1-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.