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Scope and Contents During the month Lamy received Blanc's letter dated the middle of April giving him the news that his little niece Marie Lamy was well and that the Ursulines were satisfied with her conduct and progress. The little girl was desolate when he left New Orleans. How he wishes he could leave today for Europe! He would like to make the trip with Blanc but his presence is required here until things are a little more in order. However, with the arrival of some Spanish priests who are expected this...

Scope and Contents Lamy is thinking of leaving here at the end of January to go to Europe. He would like to know if Blanc would go at the same time. They could meet at New York or elsewhere for the beginning of March. Blanc is to write to him at St. Louis. He also asks Blanc to send him his little niece, Marie Lamy at Covington, Kentucky to the home of Mrs. Mosset . The child knows the family; they live on Main Street. They have a shop. Lamy will write about this to the Ursulines to tell them that he will wait...

Scope and Contents They arrived here on August 4. They were received everywhere with marks of respect but at Santa Fé everything was surpassed. Almost the whole town came to meet them, including civil authorities. The governor invited Lamy into his carriage and they entered the town to the salute of cannons. They went to the church and after the blessing, they went to the fine house the old Mexican "Vicario" had prepared for them. Here they found refreshments. The "vicario" had come to wait for them a hundred...

Scope and Contents Blanc's vicar general has no doubt told him that Lamy wrote in the winter to ask him to advance $250 to Mr. Johnson of Seguin, Texas and to send this sum through Father Claude M. Dubuis of San Antonio. Lamy could repay Blanc next year. He congratulates Blanc on being present on the occasion of the decree of the Immaculate Conception. The little band of missionaries which Lamy brought from France, gives him much consolation but the vacancies are not all filled and he will probably soon be...

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For the reasons Lamy gave Odin on his visit yesterday, he informs Odin that on the following Monday or sooner, he will cease ecclesiastical functions in the church of Algiers. :: VI-2-i A.L.S. French 1p. 12mo.

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The bearer is charged by Anatole Cousin to take Blanc on board his schooner Mathilde which will deposit him two steps from his house. Lamy wanted to guide Blanc himself, but he will probably be kept in the confessional, and Cousin is indisposed. Blanc is to be careful of the evening dew if he travels at night. :: VI-2-b A.L.S. French 1p. 4to.

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Being worried about the repairs on the presbytery at Covington, Lamy wrote to the vicar general for help. Lamy had little success in finding the means in St. Tammany parish to support two priests. Mrs. Anatole Cousin asked to be remembered to Blanc; she wants an institution for young girls and would be happy to have a recommendation from Blanc. P.S. Mandeville and the musicians are beginning to create problems which Lamy hopes to surmount. VI-1-o - A.L.S. - French - 2pp. - 4to. - 4

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Lamy would like to know if he should baptize two Protestant children whose parents will not promise to become Catholics themselves. Blanc got Lamy some Mass intentions when he was there for Confirmation. Lamy asks for the same favor this year. :: VI-2-a A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.

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At the time of Lamy's last visit Blanc had agreed on September 11 as the time for the general Confirmation in the parish of St. Tammany. Since then Lamy has become convinced of the impossibility of preparing the more distant parishoners by that time. Lamy wants to delay the First Communions until spring and then deliver to Blanc the fruits of his labors. People want him to go to Amite City and Clinton, also, but there is the question of his jurisdiction. :: VI-2-b A.L.S. French 1p. 4to.

Scope and Contents Lamy is going to Bonfouca tomorrow to prepare the people for Blanc's visit. In case Lamy cannot go to the city, he will send one of the Messrs. Cousin to accompany Blanc aboard the schooner "Mathilde," belonging to Anatole Cousin . Lamy regrets that he cannot get things in order in Covington where he intended to have First Communion on the 18th, but the people are too busy at that time, and he would be unable to prepare them properly. He had wanted to combine the First Communion and...

Scope and Contents For the good of the church at Bonfouca, Lamy submits the following names as trustees: 1. Anatole Cousin; 2. Etienne Cousin; 3. Adolphe Cousin; 4. Eugene Picheon,; 5. Avenel Picheon, recommendable by their morality and position. At Bonfouca Lamy saw the young lady whom Blanc had placed at the home of Anatole Cousin; she seemed satisfied and adjusted easily to Creole customs. Lamy regrets that her mother cannot teach music and drawing; she could have been placed near the young lady at Mrs. T...

Scope and Contents He submits a report of the work already done on St. Peter's Church, the priesthouse and it annexes in 1857 and 1858 amounting to $437.12 which he has paid. He has also paid $150 as authorized by Blanc for the purchase of some land adjoining the church. He also proposes for Blanc's approval plans which will complete the restoration of the church, the school, and the house. It totals $103.25. He hopes to acquire the funds necessary to repair the interior of the church by holding a fair in...

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As Lamy said on his last trip to the city, Dr . E. Martin will receive Blanc at his house with pleasure during Blanc's stay at Madisonville . They will all meet him next Friday at the steamboat. This morning Lamy was surrounded by a crowd of people from the country who had come more than 40 miles. He hopes they will be back next Sunday. :: VI-1-o A.L.S. French 1p. 4to.

Scope and Contents The First Communion they are preparing for in the different stations, the visit he has just made to St. Helena and Washington, the number of adults who desire Confirmation, even the little good they have done in this part of the Floridas, so abandoned and given over to Protestant propaganda, all this makes Lamy request Blanc to visit this side of the lake this month or soon; Blanc would be an encouragement and benediction. Lamy regrets not daring to undertake what would entirely change the...

Scope and Contents In reply to Blanc's letter, Lamy chooses July 4 for their First Communion and Confirmation. Bayou Bonfouca and Lacombe, Mandeville and Madisonville will participate on the days Blanc can give them. Lamy could receive the priest Blanc has given notice of and he hopes that his presence and preaching will be a guarantee of good. They do not think they owe Mrs. Roche the amount Blanc speaks of; the most for their board would be 70 to 80 piastres. Mrs. Roche's house did not suit them at all,...

Scope and Contents Lamy writes about Father Victor Pivet and his worries about the mission if Pivet's stay is prolonged. In spite of Lamy's efforts to please Pivet, he sees that Pivet wants to leave him and live according to his own tastes. Lamy's table does not satisfy him and he does not like the trips into the woods. This is what Pivet told the pastor of the Cathedral and Father Durier, his assistant, and Father Delacroix at St. Patrick's who know nothing of the position which Blanc has assigned to Lamy....

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A piece of land 120 feet square, adjoining the church and on which there is a shop, is for sale for 150 piastres. The need here for more space and the possibility of being able later to enlarge the church prompts Lamy to propose that they buy it. :: VI-1-o A.L.S. French 1p. 4to.

Scope and Contents Lamy has carried out the Vicar General's instructions. He bought the land and in Blanc's name gave the recorder of the parish $84.50. $75 represents the first half of the purchase and the rest the notary's fee and the registration. Lamy is going to make use of the warehouse immediately for a class of boys which, according to a letter from the Brother Director of the Christian Schools at Montreal was to have begun about 3 weeks ago and which he gave over to a young man animated by a...

Scope and Contents Rousselon is to add 7 groups ? to the Propagation of the Faith for 1859 from St. Tammany parish. The expenditures for repairs on the church at Covington, on the presbytery, or the property of the archbishopric surpass the help that Rousselon recently gave Lamy. He has continued them, trying to lighten them and knowing that Rousselon would help him with the difference of 25 to 30 piastres in the estimate. Lamy acted in the hope of passing on to his successor in case he cannot continue, a...

Scope and Contents Lamy is very grateful to Rousselon for the visit of the venerable pastor of Pointe Coup e Father Hubert Thirion?. With him, Lamy was able to accept the death of Father Victor Pivet. Lamy had never thought that a priest who said Mass every day, baptized and preached would make two priests beg him to make his confession. Lamy will come as soon as he can to open his heart to Rousselon. He does not know what in him angered Privet so much; Lamy did all he could to improve Pivet's position. Lamy...

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When Lamy was last in New Orleans, he did not see Rousselon so he was unable to bring back the numbers of the Propagation of the Faith which Propagateur Catholique had announced and which many people in Lamy's congregation begged him for. If Rousselon could send them to Ponchartrain's railroad depot, they would surely reach Lamy. It seems that he is always asking Rousselon for favors. :: VI-2-b A.L.S. French 1p. 4to.

Scope and Contents Lamy apologizes for the haste in which the letter is written but the mail is leaving immediately, so he hurries off a few lines. Lamy is going to go according to Rousselon's wishes on the subject of Duplan, and knows that he will have to be cautious for Duplan's deliverance. Father Cyril Delacroix wants to protest a $200 plus debt for property he bought for the brothers. He is going to speak to Lamy about it and Lamy fears a scandal if he does not keep his engagements. :: VI-2-b A.L.S....

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For fear Rousselon has forgotten Lamy and his poor parish of St. Tammany, Lamy asks for three copies of the Lenten rules, two in French for use at Madisonville and Bonfouca, and the other in English for Covington. He would come to the bishopric, but his horse is sick, the roads bad, and his resources small. :: VI-2-a A.L.S. French 1p. 4to.

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When Lamy was last in New Orleans he was unable to get paint supplies which he needs. As he wishes to redecorate his church, he asks Rousselon to get them for him and he will repay the debt his next time in New Orleans at Holy Week. P.S. He sent Archbishop Anthony Blanc the report which Rousselon had spoken of, but doubts that it is worthy of the Annals. :: VI-2-a A.L.S. French 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Lamy does not want to abuse Rousselon's kindness, but he asks him to send some cases of red table wine and one or two cases of white sacramental wine. They lose a good quarter of each bottle because of the heat so he would like to take to Mandeville what they know is good quality. What they give to Miss Victoire Coquillon is what they can no longer use. If it is possible to send the wine on next Wednesday it will be one of the days that Lamy is at Covington. Rousselon is to enclose the bill....

Scope and Contents The offer Rousselon made to Father Victor Pivet on his last visit to the archbishop's house, prompts Lamy to address Rousselon. They would like to live in the presbytery. 1. Because it is next to the church and is in good condition. 2. Because they fear becoming a too heavy burden for the people who have given them hospitality who refuse to accept any pay. 3. Because remaining a longer time with them, they could endanger the success of their mission. They would like another bed, some knives...

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Will Rousselon rectify the birth certificate enclosed no enclosure and return it as soon as possible to Mr. Coquillon, Mandeville. Some Germans, leaving for Europe, will get it there. Lamy arrived in perfect health with his household. Father Victor Pivet is not very well. :: VI-1-n A.L.S. French 2pp. 8vo.

Scope and Contents Lamy has not been able to complete the business which brought him to Rousselon recently. Mr. Roche and his wife reject Rousselon's propositions. They do not seem to want to talk about the amount of the expenditures made in their house, expenditures which they always said to make. But today they want to be repaid more than is possible. Lamy cannot get Roche to give him a bill to send to Rousselon. Lamy has reason to doubt Roche's sincerity. What Lamy and Father Victor Pivet think they owe for...

Scope and Contents For fear these lines may not reach Father Victor Pivet at the Archbishop's house, Lamy addresses Rousselon. If Father Matthias Schifferer speaks of the favor Lamy asked of him, Rousselon is to tell him that Lamy has found a servant recommended by Brother Stephen, director of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. Despite the poverty of the living of St. Tammany parish, Lamy believes it will be better to have their own house rather than to board. In spite of the difficulties of being always...

Scope and Contents Lamy received Rousselon's latest letter and thanks him for his interest in their mission. Lamy received the servant which Father Matthias Schifferer found for him. Rousselon is to send the kitchen stove he bought for them next Wednesday if possible by the Arrow, Captain Hoffman . Auguste knows the place. Lamy told Mrs . Roche what Rousselon suggested in his letter but she has not replied. Lamy wants it very much, being ashamed to be indebted to either Rousselon's purse or that of the...