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

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1847

pg 112       September following.  The Doctor, (who was even yet desirous of 
             giving St. Mary's to the Society) asked for an additional priest 
             and a few Brothers.
                  F. Saunier learns that there is a disposition at Notre Dame 
             du Lac of giving him a superior, (although up to this there was 
             only question of sending F. Gouesse to help him .  Perhaps Dr. 
             Spalding, who did not understand how the matter could be arranged 
             otherwise, had hinted this to him.) positively refused to act with 
             anyone whatsoever from Notre Dame du Lac, although he had been 
             asking for F. Gouesse for a year.
                  Dr. Spalding wrote about the matter to the Lake, fearing, he 
             said, that this refusal of F. Saunier might break the provisional 
             understanding of April, (which had been made for only a year.)
             F. Sorin replied that the refusal or the consent of F. Saunier was
             personally immaterial as regarded the carrying out of the 
             agreement in the spring.
                  Meanwhile the Jesuits withdrew from their negotiations with 
             the diocese of Louisville and returned to their college at 
             Bardstown.  The question of St. Mary's is indirectly affected and 
             entirely changed hereby.  The Bishop has now to find places for all