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

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1855

pg 258            Hardly had he arrived home when he learned of the revolt of 
             the members at the asylum in New Orleans and the expected 
             proximate return of Mother Superior.  How those first difficulties 
             were to end remained to be seen.  Fifteen days afterwards the 
             Mother returned from New Orleans and made her report to the 
             chapter.  It was at once decided that she should formally visit 
             the new house of New York, whither she was to take her report and 
             forward it to Ste. Croix, and she was to await the answer whilst 
             performing her duties of visitor.
                  Having arrived in New York, Mother M. of the Ascension set to 
             work, not only to open a novitiate in a regular manner, but also 
             to make herself acquainted with the views and the object that had 
             been proposed in establishing this new institution, and the means 
             of attaining them.  After some weeks she became more and more 
             convinced that the good superioress and foundress of this house 
             was not a person properly to manage it.  Everyday there were new 
             projects, new journeys hither and thither, and nothing permanent 
             but a constant state of endless changes.  Then there were