Some words in both the letters referred to lead us to this inference.
Father L'hoir had not forgotten his young friend, who received a letter from him a couple of months after leaving Wittem, which breathes in every word the tenderest utterance of friendship; and a year after, another one similarly affectionate, congratulating him on his ordination.

This Father L'hoir must have been a noble soul to write so lovingly; we wish that space permitted us to give his letters to the reader.
Amongst the papers left by Father Hecker we found one carefully preserved, bearing date at St.Mary's, Clapham, the feast of St.
Raphael (Oct.

24) 1848, a month after his arrival there.

It is a manuscript of thirty-nine closely-written pages of letter-paper.

It is an account of conscience made, no doubt, to Father de Held, though its preparation may have occupied some of his time before leaving Wittem.