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

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1861

pg 437            The Brother then begins a series of threatening, insulting, 
             and arrogant letters.  He repeats over and over again that  he 
             holds the fate of Notre Dame in his hands and that it depends 
             solely on him to sink the institution.  He has three ways of doing 
             this, one of which consists in bills that he can put in 
             circulation--and thus ruin it; the other two more dreadful and 
             more infallible, etc.
                  What could those bills be that were in the hands of a 
             professed Brother who had been for four years secretary and 
             treasurer of the house, and to whom the house owned absolutely 
             nothing at his departure?
                  At the very start F. Sorin, more disgusted than vexed at such 
             language, sent copies of the first letter of Brother Amedee to the 
             Mother House in France as well as to his immediate superior at St. 
             Laurent; for the Brother had had the impudence to gain it and out 
             that he wrote under F. Reze's eyes, and that the Mother House