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

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1855

pg 231       arrived at Notre Dame about the middle of January of the 
             following year.  But before they landed in America F. Sorin felt 
             all the consequences of this double transfer of funds whilst he 
             himself was hard set to meet the expenses of his house.  On of the 
             immediate consequences was a loss of $1000 in discount on $8000, 
             without speaking of the journey to Montreal and to New York.
                  As a matter of course, after having given these proofs of 
             attachment to the Mother House, the house of the Lake might 
             expect, and rejoiced in the hope, that all memory of past miseries 
             would be blotted out.  Heaven had ordered it otherwise.  
             Unequivocal expressions of gratitude were not slow in coming from 
             the V.R.F., it is true; but whilst F. Sorin gladly received the 
             assurance of the joy and gratitude of Ste. Croix for the service, 
             which was magnified beyond due measure, other letters reached him 
             from New Orleans which pierced him to the heart.
                  At the request of Ste. Croix, F. Sorin had just resumed 
             charge of the three houses in that city, which had recently lost 
             their superior, the Rev. Guesdon, and a brother, in September