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

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1859

pg 366            However, Mgr. O'Regan was by no means satisfied with this 
             result, and he returned to his first idea, namely:  to lease the 
             college to the Congregation for a certain number of years, saying 
             that after all it matter little to him what the mode or the rule 
             was under which the Congregation entered the diocese, provided it 
             only entered and had an opportunity to do all the good that he 
             expected of it; that in any case, whether it purchased or leased 
             the property, he would do for it what he had promised.
                  The new proposition of leasing the college was seriously 
             examined at Notre Dame.  Mgr. O'Regan became impatient at the 
             delay and wrote several times to hasten the conclusion of the 
             affair.  The following is a copy of one of his letters:
                                Episcopal Residence, Chicago
                                         July 26, 1856
                  To the V. Rev. F. Sorin
                  Very Reverend and dear Sir,
                  I am sorry that you place me in the necessity of reminding 
             you once more to bring to an end all the arrangements regarding