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

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1861

pg 447       Croix towards him in those two events disenchanted him very much.  
             Hence the coolness with which he listened to the demands of Ste. 
             Croix, which asked for favors whilst multiplying injuries.
                  On April 15, the Very Rev. F. Superior General paid two notes 
             for F. Sorin amounting to 15,000fr. as a loan in return for a 
             similar favor for a like amount in 1855.  This sum was to be 
             refunded in three instalments of 5000fr. a year on the future 
             appropriations of the Propagation of the Faith.  This loan and 
             this promise of repayment were a proof as well as a result of the 
             reciprocal sentiments of the Mother House and of her eldest 
             daughter.
                  Soon after having signed those notes the Mother House was 
             subjected to that agony (which no one understands better than F. 
             Sorin) caused by the catastrophe of M. Julien.  Even before the 
             first payment on the 15000fr. was made by Ste. Croix, F. Sorin was 
             asked to hasten his payment, and at the beginning of April he sent 
             1000fr. to the treasury of Ste. Croix, and had made arrangements