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They enclose no enclosure a bill of lading on a case of books on the George Turner. It is for Abbé Fe ix Dicharr y? Dubarry and was sent from Leghorn by Luigi Paladini, to be forwarded to Blanc by order of Cardinal Fransoni. P.S. The expenses are $15.16. They have received this amount from the Captain which Blanc is to pay over to him. :: V-5-n A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents He recalls himself to Hudson and hopes he is well. Father Paul Gillen C.S.C. honored Harkins by dining with them. Harkins wanted to ask him about beeswax but Gillen got him so interested in Notre Dame that he forgot. He is interested in the manufacture and sale of beeswax candles and wants to learn about the supply in the western country. A friend of his informed him that northern Indiana was a great place for hives, and Illinois. If Hudson can obtain any information or can name anyone...

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Announces the death of his stepfather, Mr. Nicholas J. Bean, who has been a life subscriber to the Ave Maria. He encloses a paper containing the particulars of his sister's obsequies and would like mention of these deaths in the Ave Maria. Mr. Bean was formerly of Boston, Massachusetts. Enclosed is a notice of Mr. Bean's death :: X-2-e A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.

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He asks Onahan to send twenty-five tickets for the (Columbian) Catholic Congress.

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List of delegates from the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island to the Columbian Catholic Congress.

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They are pleased to announce their appointment as Cook County agents for the Old Colony Insurance Company of Boston, Mass. They thank him for past favors and are soliciting a continuance of his patronage. :: XI-2-j PRINTED CARD

Scope and Contents Harley has been in Dublin for more than a month but in the meantime has also visited other parts of Ireland. He found riches and poverty side by side, large carriages and carts, and plenty of beggars. He understands now the shanty system of the Irish in America. The houses are one story high and the animals are fed at the door and the manure piles are only a few feet away. Perhaps this is because of the scarcity of ground but the American farmer would have a better appearance of comfort and...

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As the last diocesan synod a certain sum was specified for each church in the diocese to be paid to the bishop as cathedraticum. Bishop John Hughes will remain silent on this matter no longer and has asked Harley to send to each clergyman the account as it stands in the books. He asks that the amount be paid immediately because his notes are in danger of being protested. The Church at Watertown paid $10 in 1843 and is two years in arrears. :: I-1-a A.L.S. 1p. 4to.

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Harley, whose father died recently, fears he can not continue his studies for the priesthood because of the expenses and asks Purcell for aid. A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. Father Chambige adds a note before sending the letter as follows:

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Harmel recalls (Onahan's) visit. Since they have established a factory in Manchester, they consider themselves part citizens of America. He asks whether it would not be possible, for the purpose of reconciling the nations of the Church, to invite membership of all of them to the Columbian Congress, making it an international affair. (Probably a translation copy.)

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Yesterday evening he heard of Leray's arrival and he would have gone to Rennes this morning to offer his homage and speak with him of things in which they both take an interest, if he were not afraid of finding him absent. He asks when he can see him. :: VI-3-b A.L.S. 1p. 12mo.

Scope and Contents He spoke to the Redemptorists about the mission but not being able to see Odin before Harnais' departure, Father Raymond was to tell him the result. Since last February he wrote twice to Father Henry Giesen, C.SS.R. Geissen about this mission and it was to him that Harnais talked the last time. He said that they must wait, in a word that the thing seemed impossible. It seems to Harnais that by seeing the superior and letting him know the importance of this little retreat, Odin would make him...

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Francis Lorz and Sara Butler, related in the first degree of affinity were married before the judge, and refused by Father J.B.? Langlois . Sara Butler now asks for a sanatio in radice. Harnais has used yesterday's collection to pay the carpenter of the church but will pay later if Odin demands it. :: VI-2-m A.L.S. Latin and French 2pp. 12mo.

Scope and Contents In order to persuade Odin that it was not money or temporal motives that made Harnais act as he did last Friday, he gives his reasons. When Odin sent him here, he was the fourth priest assigned to this place. One was changed before being sent; two saw it and did not wish to stay. With all the hardships here another would perhaps have stayed two months; Harnais has been here two years. During that time he has validated 19 marriages; last year there were 97 Easter Communions where there had...

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Harnais thanks Odin for his place at Carrollton and everything else. When, on the 5th, he gave his reasons, it was not with the intention of asking for a place but to let Odin know that he had no motive of temporal gain. :: VI-2-l A.L.S. French 2pp. 12mo.

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He saw in the Propagateur the notice of a collection for the parish of Plaquemine, Iberville. Because of the state of their own, he did not dare to take one for he remembers always that the church of Notre Dame de Bon Port owes Odin $400. :: VI-2-m A.L.S. French 2pp. 12mo.

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There are no trustees? here any more; Harnais did not have the trouble of breaking off with them; they themselves refused to collect to pay the carpenter as they had promised him on last January 15. They have resigned. Harnais must get the bills from Mr. Bulot and do what he can to pay the debts. If Maximilian Godefroy is in town, Odin is to pay him the $57 Harnais owes him; Odin can send Masses for the amount. They are his daily beard. :: VI-2-m A.L.S. French 2pp. 12mo.

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Harnais protests against the marriage of Arthur Tyler and Rosa Buras, his parishioners, married by Father John B. Duffy, C.SS.R. No doubt they deceived him. Harnais recalls Odin's promise to send him Mass stipends. He has had none for 3 months and in the last 2 months he has raised only $15 or $16. Blest be the two Irish families who feed him. :: VI-2-k A.L.S. French 2pp. folio

Scope and Contents Odin told Harnais not to break with the counsellors but to call a meeting and collect. Harnais saw Celestin Bulot who in January set out with T. Rayas to collect and pay the carpenter. Bulot cannot do so at present but will come to get Harnais to go collecting with him in two weeks. Last Wednesday Mr. Viard, the carpenter, asked for money; Harnais told him there was none. Harnais called a meeting; no one came. What should Harnais do, withdraw the papers in the hands of Bulot who up to now...

Scope and Contents This letter will be brought by Mrs. de Lachomette. Mr. de Lachomette having left for France to see about the education of his son, she is going to remain here with her daughter. They have left three rooms at his disposal. Harnais hopes to turn the dining room into a chapel. An old woman who worked for the Ursulines will bring his meals and do his laundry for $18 a month. Today four Counselors were elected: Felix Rogas, Celestin Bulot, Marcelin Buras, and Francis Eliard. They need the land at...

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Basyle Despeaux and Louisa Grandvolet were married before a judge, and now desire a dispensation from marriage banns to have their marriage blessed. Jean Ragas and Adelaide Balet desire the same dispensation. :: VI-2-i A.L.S. French 1p. 8vo.

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Hippolyte Buras and Marie Rose Buras were married before a judge. They wish to be married and ask for a dispensation from second degree relationship. Louis Prosper Buras and Louise Honorine Buras request the same. Harnais hopes to have the wood for the church toward the end of the week and to build the exterior this year without contracting any debts. Odin can send his letter by Joseph David or on the Winona. :: VI-2-i A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.

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About 10 ago he wrote for two dispensations for persons married by a judge. He asks that they be sent as quickly as possible. He also asked for Mass stipends; he cannot live without this small revenue. :: VI-2-i A.L.S. French 1p. 4to.

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Last week he was visited by Father Auguste Langlois and Harnais will expect Odin on March 13. Harnais knows only two persons in the parish who have been confirmed. Fourteen months ago when Odin offered this mission to Harnais, Odin said that the state of these abandoned people worried him. :: VI-2-k A.L.S. French 3pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents If he had known of the numerous tasks Perché had on the occasion of the retreat and the glorious demonstration that followed it, he would have written much sooner about his parish. He will not speak of either temporal or spiritual matters since both are known to Perché everything is in disarray. In sending the inventory of objects belonging to the parish, he must warn him that the Registers of Marriages, No. 1 and No. 2 are missing and the Registers of Baptisms No. 1 and No. 3 are also...

Scope and Contents In compliance with Leray's request last Thursday, Harnais sends the required statement. Against the known prohibition of the Archbishop, Sister Mary of St. Francis. M.H.C. had a fair given for the benefit of her academy. Each night was concluded with dances. Sister knew that she was giving scandal to the Catholics for they also are aware that round dances, waltzes, and polkas are forbidden by the Church. Harnais has asked the Archbishop and the Provincial of the Sisters to recall Sister St....

Scope and Contents Harnais is writing to Archbishop Napoleon Joseph Perché a letter of which he believes he should give Leray a copy. The copy of the letter states that two weeks ago Harnais asked Perché to change Sister St. Francis, M.H.C. as directress of the convent. The reasons given were that his Sister had held a fair, against Perché's prohibition, at which dances were held every night and a skit on marriage which greatly scandalized the real Catholics. Because of her they were to send a petition against...

Scope and Contents After Archbishop Perché's letter, after Leray's visits to the convent, and after the meeting of the seven wise men, their hangman, his deputy, his uncle and his two brothers-in-law. Harnais thought all was right again. But it seemed he was mistaken as shown by the enclosed copy of a letter to Archbishop Napoleon Joseph Perché . When Perché's letter was received, announcing the withdrawal of Sister Mary of St. Francis, M.H.C . gave notice to the Sisters that they could come to Confession or...

Scope and Contents Harnais again speaks of the affairs of the convent of the Sisters Marianites of the Holy Cross . The faculties of ordinary confessor which had been withdrawn from the pastor of Baton Rouge, have, it seems, been restored. This pastor came yesterday and Harnais met him in the street returning from the convent. When he told Harnais that he had again received the order to come, Harnais told him that he was welcome and following Leray's advice, Harnais will pay no attention to him. :: VI-3-d...

Scope and Contents On his arrival last Saturday several asked Harnais if it was true that by Leray's order, the convent would be shut at the vacations. Last Sunday his answer was that he had nothing to do with the convent. Last week the Sisters Marianites of the Holy Cross sent to St. James, Michel Hebert, one of those Leray met at the convent on March 10. Harnais cannot say if Hebert saw the Archbishop or what was the result of his visit. The Sisters have spread this rumor and keep up agitation, thinking to...