Scope and Content Correspondence addressed to Benedict Joseph Spalding (1811-1868) by bishops Guy Ignatius Chabrat, Benedict Joseph Flaget, Francis X. Gartland, Peter R. Kenrick, Richard P. Miles, Martin John Spalding and Peter J. Lavialle; by priests including Francis Chambige, William E. Clark, Joseph Haseltine, and James M. Lancaster; by religious including Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Sisters of Loretto, Jesuits, a Trappist, and a Dominican; and by lay people including L.W. Powell (Governor of...

Scope and Content

Letters written to Rev. Joseph Haseltine by Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget and others; and documents giving Haseltine's family background and dates when he received sacraments.

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Scope and Content Letters received by Spalding from bishops Guy Ignatius Chabrat, Maurice de Saint-Palais, Benedict Joseph Flaget and Francis P. Kenrick, from diocesan priests, Jesuits, and Dominicans, and from relatives; other correspondence involving people in the diocese; one letter written by Spalding to James M. Lancaster (20 December 1846); a circular letter (1858) and an undated sermon. Microfilm contains pastoral letters written by Spalding as Archbishop of Baltimore (1865-1872) and a...