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

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1847

pg 110       draw all the necessary helps, but treating directly with Sainte 
             Croix in everything. 
                  From that time forward, therefore, he represented himself to 
             the Bishop and to Mr. Delaune as the agent of Sainte Croix.  Soon 
             he imagined that he could conduct the college better than Mr. 
             Delaune himself, and as if he had been really invested with all 
             the powers of the Mother House, without saying a word to the Lake, 
             he makes a contract with Mr. Delaune, takes upon himself, as 
             representative of Sainte Croix, the whole government and 
             responsibility of the college, of which he makes himself 
             president, Mr. Delaune figuring simply as a paid agent.  And even 
             with all this he can hardly keep him as such and takes upon 
             himself all that he would like to without turning him out.
                  In the month of October he writes to the Lake saying that F. 
             Moreau had just accepted St. Mary's adn ratified all his doings.  
             As has been said already, on the authorization of the Rev. Father 
             four Sisters were sent to him towards the end of the same month, 
             and six weeks afterwards Brother Theodulus.  Believing himself