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

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1853

pg 179            About the beginning of August a malignant epidemic, the 
             yellow fever, broke out fiercely in New Orleans.  Three Brothers 
             and one Sister of the Asylum were carried off in a few weeks.  Who 
             would believe it?  F. Gouesse had not the manliness to write a 
             word about it to Notre Dame du Lac!  A prohibition had been issued 
             to the members at the Asylum against correspondence with the Lake 
             and with Bertrand.  In the actual condition of things this 
             pharisaical spirit of the poor Father was little calculated to do 
             away with the bitter feelings.
                  Archbishop Blanc himself was indignant.  This saintly 
             prelate, who up to this time had kept F. Gouesse as the 
             representative of authority, finally recognizing that such a head 
             would never guide things to any but an unfortunate end, and that 
             Sainte Croix itself, without the Lake, could offer no guarantee to 
             provide the Asylum with the necessary subjects, thought seriously 
             of removing the primary cause of the miseries in question, and 
             demanded his recall from New Orleans.
                  Meanwhile the Visitor from Sainte Croix arrived unexpectedly 
             at N.D. du Lac. F. Sorin, who had learned, although only