Letters written in 1847
To His Excellency Bishop Patrick Phelan, Coadjutor Bishop of Kingston, Upper Canada
General Hospital of Bytown
February 1, 1847
Your Excellency,
Since I have not received any response to the letter I wrote to Your Excellency last month, I dare to believe it has been lost. Here is a summary of what I wrote. I asked you to please excuse Rev. Father Telmon who could not respond to Your Excellency’s letter since he was boarding the stagecoach for Montreal at the moment he received it. Regarding the sixty louis, I had asked you to delay sending them, that our Father would write to you of this matter upon his return or would make arrangements directly in person with Your Excellency. Since it does not seem that we will have the pleasure of seeing you soon in Bytown, I ask you to please send us the sixty louis as soon as possible. We have a payment to make in a few weeks to Mr. Jobin of £60-0-0 for the three lots which we purchased from the Ordinance and which are part of the land promised to us provided we purchased them from the persons who had a right to them. We also have another payment of £20 to make to Mr. Carny for the same reason as above.
If Your Excellency does not rescue us, we will not be able to satisfy our creditors and we run the risk of losing these lots. I count on your paternal charity hoping your will extend a helping hand. With a firm trust I await your answer soon. Excellency, please forgive the naïve freedom with which I write to you. All my companions join with me in asking you to receive our most profound respect and to never forget that your are our first Father in this dioceses; we never stop considering you as such. We are eager to see you.
Sister M. Phelan is well and continues to offer great hope.
I have the honour of being,
Excellency,
Of Your Worship,
The very humble and very obedient daughter,
Sister E. Bruyère, Sup.