Scope and Content Chiefly correspondence files of Michael Bouchet acting in his capacity as vicar general (1871-1903), including many letters addressed to Bishop McCloskey, who referred them to Bouchet for action. Also receipts and accounts of purchases (1840-1919); legal records and property deeds (1798-1914); parish records and surveys (1879-1832); case files on clergy and religious of the diocese (1880-1904); records of marriage cases, annulments, and dispensations (1887-1907); and subject...

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...