Oct. 4. Forwarded letters for Rev^d Mother, including notice for newspapers of Rosary Sunday in British Guiana.

+ Placed the Coolie Miguel at the Convent to work - Thirty Dollars to the Nuns.

Commenced with the priests to keep house today.

5. Settled accounts with clergymen today. Received from Mr O'Connor $111.6 and a half bits for Fr. Joaquin - also 10 dollars lent by Mr. Reed - and $50 in discharge of same sum lent to Mr. MacNamara, which will be in deduction of expenses of Mr. O'Connor's passage paid by Mr. MacNamara.

Rev^d J. Fitzgerald paid $10 lent by Mr. Reed, also 261/4 dollars in liquidation of expenses of passage etc.

Received dividend of fees from arrival, being $40.50.

1847. October 6^th. Mr. Walsh our Schoolmaster has disappeared, and somewhat mysteriously - he has not been heard of since the day before yesterday.

Hired a Portuguese woman to wash etc. etc. - name, Francesca - $5 per month.

7. Coolie Francis came last night.

10^th. Had occasion to administer a reproof this morning to Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. O'Connor for keeping late hours etc.

An interesting ceremony took place this morning at S. Joseph's in placing the extern school under the protection of S. Lewis Bertrand.

Hired a Portuguese boy (yesterday) named Candido.

11. The day pupils of S. Joseph's are now five - Misses F. Goodman, Byrne, two Nathans, and Van Rinschot.

12. The Packet has come in and brought me letters from Mr. Jerningham, Mr. Troy, D^r Murdoch etc. - a pamphlet from Trinidad - a letter also from the Athlone Nuns to our Superioress.

1847. October 19^th. Forwarded letters to Mr. Jerningham and Rev^d Mr. Lordan - to Mr. Jer: wrote to invest the £100 deposited by Mr. Troy, together with my October dividend. Forwarded letters from the Convent to Rev^d Mother Querk and Rev^d Maleny, to Mrs. Comerford, to the new Superior of the Athlone Convent, and Mr. Tierney, Honoria's father.

Three more pupils for S. Joseph, viz. Misses Dey, Martha MacKenzie, and C. Murdoch.

20. A letter this morning from Rev^d Mr. Cullen for self, one also for Rev^d Mr. MacNamara, Berbice, which I gave to J. Reed to forward.

Cullen and MacNamara were, I believe, at Maynooth together. Wrote to Mr. Cullen.

21. S. Ursula's Day. S. Joseph's has now quite a Conventual air. The little chapel was neatly arranged for this morning's solemnities. Besides my Mass the Nuns had the happiness of hearing Father Fitzgerald's and Father O'Brien's. Between Mr. Fitzgerald's Mass and Mr. O'Brien's I received two converts into the Church - baptising them conditionally. Their names are Miss Harriet de Courcy Ursula Reed and Miss Susan Alethea Mary Graham. Stood sponsor for the first named.

1847. October 21^st. In my letter yesterday to Cullen refused to give him a roving commission to quest on the Spanish Main, and in the Islands.

28. The Packet has come in and brought me letters from J. Sullivan and Susan Barry - a packet also for Mother Regis.