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

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1856

pg 285                                  1.  New York
                  To continue what we related of New York in 1855 and to 
             conclude this article, let is suffice to say:
                  F. Sorin's letter had hardly reached F. Madeore and by him 
             been communicated to the Archbishop of New York, when the V. R. 
             Father again manifested intentions altogether contrary to those 
             reported by the colony of Sisters from Ste. Croix.  His Reverence 
             maintained that this establishment depended on the Lake, and 
             letters in his own hand came pouring in in this sense.  The 
             contents of the third letter were submitted to the Archbishop, who 
             answered through F. Madeore that for the future he wanted to have 
             no other intermediary between him and the Superior General but the 
             person that should be local superior of the establishment.  A 
             contract was drawn up in his name and sent to the V. R. Rector, 
             then in Rome.  All but the article in question was accepted, and 
             to that His Reverence added: "Through the medium of the Lake," par 
             l'intermediation du Lac.