Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to Fr. Martin Hyland OFM Cap.

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Old Mission Santa Inés Founded 1804 Beditated 1817 Secularized 1836 Abandoned 1850 Restored 1904 Badry Alexander Buckler, Reptor Solvang, California, A. A. Dec 7th 1924 (SANTA BARBARA COUNTY) My drop Tr Marlin When this maches you I suppose Christmas will be close at hand, so I lake the offpotuncify to trick yourself & all Romannify a reg happy exmas & all the pip starting ythe Festival. This will be for us bad a sharp exmas, as the wrather is practically extremely warm & day & piercing cold & bright. How can we junder a glaring densery "see proof amid the wintrie know" which we must by to persuade ourselves that see 25th will be exmas day. We reg huge bad - the place in fairly well in pains & in the church, spensify, grounds, house, godden is in a plate of lamentable dream reglach. The Rose-bushes that have been reglached for years are growing onto through roof of house, the church roof leaking so badly that I have had to affect to value saughtie of California to come to reassure it. But the walls & trams of church since way. Thank you we have you a favorable regly. If we had about $50,000 on even $20,000 we could put place into shape. What we can is so much that it is only by gradual economy we can live - This is the bad presson, very few brushes come along. But they will trapple up web ope. We have notariatries, notes of which we walk in house, but kind friends yell by us a stellar of downly walk, we have a huge penish with a lotal of About 80 Catholic families of plumate in gladial under peru - Trish English, Mend. German Bostonian, Hungarian, Spanish, Polaguese, Mexican, Indian, moto ython are Spanish speaking. Which know Eglish loi. It Reg is reg huge propriety for missions which he expects to be called to soon. I bush in Trapp shores his years & his enthusiasm. But so far the call has not come. Before we came box we know much the about the land attached to mission - a veritable Gold mine - It buries out we have 30 acres 15 of which can be you to grow alfalfa - the remaining 17 practically a track - one bedecessed had de- liased at $100,000 for yrot. Now the loxies being $40,000 on three parts larves the properly worth $100,000 on about $20 for yrot. Bad it is a help. When you concede for molance that our lotal collection from at two masses today unranked to $3.75, by colum housewe is able to get a dollar to $0 for & is looking aft as well from his slender allowances. We are lain on friend terms with our Samish Neghbors of Sobrang. Yesbrider, also trades had field to us from Santa Barbara though we had written horse for them. Packing was desprate. The only way we get them was by asking the hathan Pasbi who was motoring to Santa Barbara to call at old mission with nake for brushes to bother Sancristian. By colum prent to ministers who received him moto pourtenauf. promised to do the message & lathi every mortored down box with box of brushes. We always we about in our habits & glorify care, home armpal of braid & povissions - in that way we…