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

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1847

pg 106       directions that he had received, he considered it of such 
             advantage to act as he though F. Sorin himself would have done, 
             that he believed he was rendering a great service to the Society 
             by immediately buying from the Jesuits all that should necessarily 
             remain for the house of the Brothers, and in the name of the house 
             he signed an obligation for 9500fr. for furniture.  
                  The notice of this transaction, which he at once sent to F. 
             Sorin at Sainte Croix, surprised and displeased the latter.  
             However, as he stated in this same letter that, with the approval 
             of Mgr. Flaget, he had written to the Propagation of the Faith 
             asking for a grant of 20,000fr.  Sainte Croix did not venture to 
             annul his acts in Kentucky before learning the result of his 
             petition.  For four months an answer was expected from Lyons and 
             Paris, during which time no word was sent to Mr. Deluane, who 
             continued to act as he had been doing, thinking that his course 
             was approved since nothing was said to the contrary.
                  The time fixed for F. Sorin's departure arrives, and no 
             answer received from the Propagation of the Faith, Sainte Croix
             begins to be alarmed in regard to St. Mary's.  F. Sorin is