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

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1859

pg 378       your lawyers told you that it was really annulled; but ours tell 
             us just the contrary, including even the lawyer that drew it up 
             for Mgr. O'Regan.  Up to the present therefore I see no legal 
             decision in virtue of which we should give up our possession.
                  Permit me to remark here that the document of which I speak 
             gives us legal rights; it ours are extinguished, I bag as a favor 
             that the declaration may not be looked upon by any one as an 
             arbitrary proceeding on your part, but rather as the decision of a 
             legal and competent judge.
                  I think that without the least noise or scandal this affair 
             can be easily examined, and if we must withdraw, we desire at 
             least to be able to do so without the slightest resentment against 
             Your Lordship.
                  Very respectfully,
                    Your Obedt. Servt.,
                      E. Sorin
                  His Lordship made no reply.  On the 19th the Rev. F. Sorin 
             visited him, but could not obtain an interview on business.  The