Letter to the Prefect of the Propaganda Fide (2 November 1887)
Your Eminence,
As I had announced to your Eminence from the beginning, I had the Council of the Congregation
of the Missionaries of Algiers decide to send to Rome a certain number of scholastics who will live in
the procure of this small Society at Saint Nicholas of Lorraine and, under the direction of the Father Procurator, will be taking their theology courses and will then be qualified so that they can serve as directors or teachers in their own African seminaries, or those seminaries that the local Ordinaries would later want them to run.