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

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1841-1842

pg 30        see at the time how to save 10 cents they wasted half a day, 
             which was equal to 50 cents.
                  Be this as it may, the more they labored on this new soil of 
             St. Peter's, the more they grew attached to it.  The Catholic 
             congregation and their Protestant and infidel neighbors seemed 
             all to be attached to them.  The question arose of building a 
             college, and all appeared delighted with the idea and ready to 
             help in carrying it out, each according to his means.  Estimates 
             for the commencement were almost immediately made, and at the 
             beginning of next spring, one hundred thousand bricks, ten 
             thousand feet of lumber, and some thousands of feet of cut stone 
             were get ready for this purpose.
                  Le us say a word here in regard to the great attachment of 
             this little family to the Mother House of Sainte Croix.  It was 
             one of their usual thoughts, and in nearly all their recreations 
             Ste. Croix or the Rev. F. Rector formed the staple of their 
             conversations.  For about six weeks after their arrival they 
             received no news from France, and F. Sorin made a trip to 
             Vincennes in the hope of finding a letter there from the Rev. F. 
             Moreau.  At length, towards the end of November, he received one