Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1859

pg 390       letter remained unanswered which left the impression that all was 
             at an end.  A memorial of twenty pages had been addressed by F. 
             Sorin to the Archbishop of Baltimore on occasion of his going to 
             Chicago, and the Archbishop, after reading it, handed it to Mgr. 
             Duggan.  The Archbishop when leaving Notre Dame told F. Sorin to 
             claim the return of this document if matters were not arranged, 
             and to send it to the metropolitan at St. Louis.
                  In conformity with this advice the Rev. Father P. Dillon was 
             charged to proceed to St. Louis with the memorial.  But when he 
             presented himself to the Bishop of Chicago to obtain the memorial, 
             all was changed, and the Bishop now only desired to have an 
             understanding with F. Sorin and to retain the Society that it 
             might continue to do all the good possible.
                  The following week F. Sorin went to Chicago with his Bishop 
             and found the Bishop of Chicago most favorably disposed.  All 
             things were settled without the least difficulty on either side, 
             and the Congregation was more firmly established than ever in a