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Letter to the Holy Father (4 November 1891)
This prelate [Mgr Livinhac], Most Holy Father, has already had long years of experience in the mission in the heart of Africa. He has given there an example of heroic courage, faith, devotion and selfdenial. I recognize in him only one fault which can be overcome only by obedience: that is extreme humility which gives him a horror of all high office, and he would refuse, as he has himself declared to me several times, the title of Coadjutor of Carthage.

Letter to Father Louail (8th November 1882)
My dear Son,
As you begin your stay in Lille, I want to outline once more the program that has been laid down for
you and which you are to follow in your house. You must, therefore:
1) Supervise properly the young Arabs who are following classes in medicine. The goal to achieve with them is to see that they do not do anything stupid and that they work hard. But do not supervise these young people in a way which annoys them as you might with school children.

Letter to the Congregation of Propaganda Fide (7 November 1892)
Your Eminence,
The extensive mission of Upper Congo, situated within the territory of the independent State and serve by the priests of the Society of Missionaries of Algiers, is at the moment without a leader. Reverend Father Coulbois who had been in charge of the administration this last period, with the function of ProVicar Apostolic, returned to Europe in April of the present year for serious health reasons and finds himself obliged, for the same reasons, to resign definitively from his previous office.

Letter to Father Bresson, superior of Woluwé, Belgium (6 November 1885)
My dear Friend,
I also regretted not going to see you all in Algiers. I would have liked to ask you in detail about the house in Woluwe and the arrangements in Belgium. Thank you for the long letter you have written to me and the useful information it contains. I see with joy that the Good Lord is blessing your work and that of your good confreres. Tell them and also your students that I bless them from afar, with a most paternal heart. What I wish above all is to see the bonds that unite the different nationalities in our little Society become closer. I hold more dearly to the union with the Belgians who came first and who are eminently gifted with qualities for the apostolate.