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

---

1859

pg 372            But hardly had Mgr. Duggan received his bulls for the diocese 
             when a rumor was spread that he was going to take back the 
             college.  F. Sorin wrote to him to ascertain the facts, and in 
             answer received, on Good Friday, the following letter, which needs 
             no commentary:
                                  Chicago, April 18th 1859
             Very Reverend dear Sir,
                  It was my intention before receiving your letter to write to 
             you immediately after the Easter holidays; but your letter of 
             inquiry makes me do sooner than I intended what I had purposed 
             doing.  I write therefore to inform you that you should recall 
             your community and have the college and the premises vacated by 
             the beginning of vacation, which, I expect, will be in the early 
             part of summer.
                  Since I have been here I have always desired to see this 
             property restored to the diocese, and as you have not fulfilled 
             the contract, you leave me no alternative but to rescind it.  I do 
             not think that the gain received by the diocese from the presence 
             of the community, compensates for the property that it holds.  We