Selected Letters of A. M. A. Blanchet

Roberta Stringham Brown is professor of French emertia at Pacific Lutheran University. Patricia O'Connell Killen is professor of religious studies and academic vice president at Gonzaga University.

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Letter 1. To Charles Dufriche-Desgenettes, Pastor of Notre-Dame des Victoires, Paris, February 25, 1847Letter 2. To Francois Norbert Blanchet, Archbishop of Oregon City, December 12, 1847Letter 3. To Célestin Gauvreau, Vicar-General, Superior, College of Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, [January] 1848 Letter 4. To Members of the Councils of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, Lyons and Paris, [March] 1848 Letter 5. List of Items the Bishop of Walla Walla Requested of Bishop Demers, [March 1848] Letter 6. To James Buchanan, Secretary of State, March 31, 1848Letter 7. To James Buchanan, Secretary of State, April 1, 1848 Letter 8. To George Abernethy, Governor, Provisional Government of Oregon, April 29, 1848 Letter 9. To Jean-Charles Prince, Bishop of Martyropolis, Coadjutor of the Diocese of Montreal, January 27, 1849 Letter 10. To Members of the Councils of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, Lyons and Paris, July 14, 1849 Letter 11. To Pope Pius IX, November 1, 1849 Letter 12. To Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal, February 6, 1850 Letter 13. To J. B. A. Brouillet, Vicar-General, March 9, 1850Letter 14. To Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal, November 22, 1850Illustration Gallery 1 Letter 15. To Isaac Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory, October 20, 1854Letter 16. To Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War, Washington City, D. C., December 28, 1854 Letter 17. To William Leclaire, Missionary, Cowlitz Mission, May 15, 1855 Letter 18. To Marcel Bernier, Cowlitz Mission, May 15, 1855 Letter 19. To Nicholas Congiato, Society of Jesus, April 26, 1856 Letter 20. To the Directors of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, Paris, May 15, 1857Letter 21. To Emilie Caron, Superior, Sisters of Providence, Montreal, June 16, 1857Letter 22. To William Archbold, U.S. Army Sergeant, Fort Steilacoom, W.T., July 28, 1857 Letter 23. To Eugène-Casimir Chirouse, Oblate of Mary Immaculate, March 12, 1860 Letter 24. To Edward R. Geary, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon and Washington Territories, October 7, 1860Letter 25. To Allen McLeod, March 6, 1862Letter 26. To the Central Council of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, April 15, 1862 Letter 27. To Major Pinkney Lugenbeel, Commanding Officer, Fort Vancouver, May 22, 1862Letter 28. To Caleb Blood Smith, Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D.C., June 16, 1862 Letter 29. To Aegidius Junger, Missionary of Walla Walla, November 6, 1862 Letter 30. To J. B. A. Brouillet, Vicar-General, March 20, 1863Illustration Gallery 2 Letter 31. To the Directors of the Leopoldine Society, January 25, 1864 Letter 32. To Sister Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Superior, February 11, 1864Letter 33. To Charles Vary, Missionary, July 23, 1864Letter 34. To Francis Xavier Prefontaine, Missionary, July 24, 1864Letter 35. To the Secular and Regular Clergy of the Diocese, July 8, 1867 Letter 36. To Jean-Baptiste Auguste Brondel, Missionary, August 31, 1867Letter 37. To Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal, October 10, 1867Letter 38. To Francis Xavier Prefontaine, Missionary, October 14, 1867 Letter 39. To J. B. A. Brouillet, Vicar-General, January 20, 1868 Letter 40. To Peter De Smet, Society of Jesus, February 15, 1871Letter 41. To James Roosevelt Bayley, Archbishop of Baltimore, June 15, 1873Letter 42. To Charles Seghers, Bishop of Vancouver Island, December 30, 1873 Letter 43. To J. B. A. Brouillet, Vicar-General, November 24, 1874 Letter 44. To Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal, June 17, 1875 Letter 45. To His Eminence Cardinal Alessandro Franchi, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith, July 9, 1876 General Chronology Selected Bibliography Patrons Index

"This selection of 45 letters by the first Catholic Bishop of Walla Walla provides a view of early Washington history through the eyes of an intelligent and perceptive cleric and administrator."