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\nYour three letters up through 29 August reached me all at once these last days, My dear Monsieur Rosati. I see your embarrassment; but I also see your courage and your good spirit in the observations you made me. I am fully of your opinion regarding Mr. M'Gilligan. Keep him as an external minister, so that you do not have to redirect the others---I believe that Mr. M[aunheut] will return to Natchez. The good Lord will provide by the by.\n
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\nI had written you about making Mr. Peyretti come down with Mr. Blanc. My letter will have arrived too late to you. But at any rate there is still time. He is at his brother's house, where I count on going to perform the ordination shortly.\n
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\nI see with pleasure that the Seminary makes material as well as moral progress. But for the moment, and probably until a year from now, it will be impossible for me to assist you. I have just put down my last sou to pay back a debt in arrears of $2200, which was contracted for the purchase of the land along the River des Peres: Thank God, it is one more thing done---But I still have a payment for the Negroes, which is overdue. How will I do it? God alone knows---However, I am not worried. I believe it will be taken care of by the means of some friends.---Beyond that, I will still have the debt to Mr. Mullanphy of $1700 and another of $1000 to a good man from Prairie du Long in Illinois.---For these two debts I am expecting a remittance from Europe.---But even paid, I will not be in the clear. Will I not have to make the necessary repairs to my...
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\nMr. Jeanj. told me that he sent you a nice assortment of carding combs; you should have received them. They cost $170 in Boston. It will be a source of revenue. I will try to send you some cotton. Is the cash you received from Mr. Borgna exhausted? This brave young man is a great loss to us, and he is very badly replaced by poor Mr. Acquaroni, who lacks common sense. I long to see the first come back and to give the second permission to return to P[ortage]. He is a child, indiscreet to the point of making himself despised. I would be very pleased if you replaced him sooner.\n
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\nYou demand what I owe Mr. Manning. In truth I cannot...
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\nI am enchanted by all you have told me of MM. Odin and Timon--You must let me have the latter someday for New Orleans, where I am in need of an English preacher--he must have time to train. Until then, you will have some other Confrères of yours to give me to live with him. They will stay with me at the Bishop's mansion, tasked with teaching and giving sermons. At this time you will have some good subjects trained at the Seminary to replace them. Mr. T. will find in this place something to help his poor family.\n
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\nBefore receiving the subjects from Detroit, please you to inform Mr. Richard that you can only train them for this Diocese, unless they pay their tuition. It would not be right to do otherwise.
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\nWhat are you doing about those Mr. Martial sent you? I was surprised to see that, without consulting us, he had put them under your charge. Surely what he sent you---a Chalice and some books---will not pay their board. If these Children are good, and they show vocation, you can well take care of them: but if they are burdensome to you, do not be afraid of sending them back to him, but do not delay, because he speaks of returning to France in the month of March. And what are you doing about that imbecile Rod---How could Mr. Acq. have taken it upon himself to bother you? I very much encourage you to send him back to him---you do not need useless mouths.
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\nAs for the Sisters, it is a very sad thing that the Congregation left you to do everything, after promising you so much. You would do well to assemble the leaders and make them promise you that they will furnish provisions at least for the first year.---Give my compliments to these good daughters and recommend me to their prayers.\n
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\nI congratulate you on the arrival of your 3 brothers, an architect....
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\nI return to what I asked you for our College in New Orleans.---I ardently desire 2 or 3 of your subjects. Mr. Borgna could be one of them, Mr. Timon one in a couple of years, and Providence perhaps will give you some others that you could concede to me.---I will give them separate quarters in the convent, where they will do their exercises together and live in common with one or two brothers.---The aim of this request is to start to prepare this Establishment for being exclusively held by your Society---There your confreres will not be exposed to dissipation, nor to mad expenditures, and they will always have some superfluous person who will be religiously employed to help them.\n\n-\n
\nAn excellent subject from Rhodes has arrived who has done two years of Theology. I am going to send him to you to finish his course and learn English. I warn you that I intend him for the College: that does not prevent you from admitting him into your society if he asks it; but only in the case where you do not believe it would thereafter deprive the College: because I absolutely cannot pass up some good subjects here. I say as much about Mr. Timon regarding his admission of vows.
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\nI will tell you honestly what has deterred Mr. Portier from entering your Congregation, it is, above all, Mr. Acq.i.'s wayward conduct and ridiculous spending. No one who does not stop throwing considerable sums---fruit of the ministry---on superfluous things understands the meaning of a vow of poverty. No one understands how a member of a Congreg. so respectable...
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\nYou should know how Mr. Evrement has left the Diocese in spite of my ban and has taken refuge in Bardstown. I ordered him to go back there under pain of suspension. It is hoped that he will obey and return to the Seminary, where I desire that he be received as if nothing had happened. You may employ him as external minister and at everything besides that he is willing to do. The poor young man fell headfirst into a trap perfidiously set to his simplicity. He alleges, in his defense, his certification to the Society of Mr. Liautard before his ordination for this Diocese, as if a Society neither approved nor recognized by the Church, whose subjects are not tied to it by some vow, has the power to exempt them even from subordination to the Bishops. I also encourage Mr. Saulnier to go spend some time there. I would very much like this subject to become attached to you. He is very pious and well proven. He would be one of those whom I would want with me at the bottom.---Adieu, My dear Monsieur Rosati: you have no better friend in the world than\n
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\n+ L. Guil. Ev. de la N. Orl.\n
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\nThe crate of medicine that you received is that which I had sent from Baltimore. I hear from Mr. Moni that he also dispatched some cloth that you await from Europe.\n
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\nRemember that the Children sent by Mr. Mart. are Orphans. If you do not send them back to him, at least demand from him as an indispensable condition...
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\n[Souvay's note: Endorsed ut supra by Rosati. Addressed to him at Barrens. Postmaster's clearance (no circular stamp): Iberville, La / Oct. 16/ 25 c.]
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