1 "Chronicles," p. 91; on the siege of illness that summer, cf. Letter No. 28: Notre Dame de Ste. Croix, September 17, 1847, Circular Letters of . . . Moreau, I, 123.
2 Boarders' Ledger No. 2, 1849-1852, UNDA.
4 Letter of M. R. K[eegan] of Bertrand, Michigan, November 5, 1847, in the Freeman's Journal, copy in UNDA, undated.
6 Minor Chapter Book, entries of October 14 and 16, 1847.
7 C. of Prof., 1847-48, entry of October 5, 1847, UNDA.
8 Brother Gatian's Journal, entry of March 24, 1848, PAHC.
9 Letter of M. R. K[eegan] of Bertrand, Michigan, November 5, 1847, in the Freeman's Journal, copy in UNDA, undated.
10 Brother Gatian's Journal, entry of May 21, 1847, PAHC, and C. of Prof., 1847-46, entries of May 11 and October 6, 1847, UNDA.
11 Minor Chapter Book, entry of September 19, 1847, PAHC.
12 Minor Chapter Book, entries of October 25, 1847, and April 22, 1848, and Brother Gatian's Journal, entry of July 4, 1848, PAHC.
13 Brother Gatian's Journal, entry of December 10, 1847.
14 Chapter Book, entry of January 17, 1848.
15 Elliot, loc. cit., XIV, 50-61.
16 Sorin to the Rev. Aug. Martin of East Baton Rouge, La., January 31, 1848, UNDA.
17 Brother Gatian's Journal, entry of December 10, 1847.
18 C. of Prof., 1847-48, entry of December 10, 1847, UNDA.
19 Paper signed by Julian Benoit as Badin's attorney, dated South Bend, September 2, 1847, UNDA.
20 Benoit to Sorin, Fort Wayne, October 4, 1847, UNDA.
21 See, for example, Samuel [Eccleston], Archbishop of Baltimore, to Sorin, Baltimore, September 2, 1847, UNDA.
22 Benoit to Sorin, Fort Wayne, November 9, 1847, UNDA.
23 "True and signed copy" of the grant of power of attorney by Badin to the Reverend John Quinn, UNDA.
25 Brother Gatian' s Journal, undated entry following entry of July 18, 1847, PAHC.
26 Several solutions to the epidemic were put forth; for example, "Next year, green potatoes will not be served at table, as several persons pretend the fevers of the summer are occasioned by it." Minor Chapter Book, entry of October 2, 1847, PAHC. 27 Brother Gatian's Journal, undated entry following entry of July 18, 1847.
28 Minor Chapter Book, entry of September 4, 1847, PAHC.
29 The petition called for an administration which was very much like the Provincial system which was granted to Sorin (as Provincial of the United States) a few years later.
30 Minor Chapter Book, entries of September 15 and 16, 1847, PAHC.
31 Ibid., entry of October 5, 1847.
32 "Chronicles," pp. 110-111; Catta. op. cit., I, 563-64.
34 Ibid.; Catta, op. cit., I, 564.
35 Minor Chapter Book, entry of December 7, 1847. PAHC; "Chronicles," p. 111.
36 Brother Gatian's Journal, entry of March 24, 1848, PAHC.
38 Bishop Spalding to Sorin, Louisville, May 21, 1848, UNDA.
40 Ibid. Father Julian Delaune, after the failure of the Holy Cross establishment at St. Marys, was called to help in the foundation of another college in the United States, but he became ill and was forced to return to France where he died on May 4, 1849. See his obituary in the Catholic Almanac for 1853.
41 The original of this agreement signed by Bishop Bazin is in UNDA; cf. "Chronicles," pp. 119-120; Brother Gatian's Journal, entry of March 24, 1848, PAHC.
42 List of Foundations of the Houses of Brothers, UNDA.
43 Reverend James M. de St. Palais to Bishop John Purcell, Vincennes, May 6, 1848, UNDA.
45 Minor Chapter Book, entries of December 4, 1847, and March 14, 1848, PAHC.
47 Brother Gatian's Journal, entry of May 25, 1848, PAHC.
48 Minor Chapter Book, entry of August 28, 1847, PAHC.
51Ibid., p. 118.
52Ibid., p. 92.
53 Minor Chapter Book, entry of May 22, 1848, PAHC.
55 Brother Gatian's Journal, entry of July 4, 1848, PAHC.