Francis' favor intended for Kendall was received and they are pleased that he and their mother and Jerome are well. His son, John Francis, had an attack of croup, but they are all well now. Josiah wrote that he would stay another year at Section 10 but then he wrote that he would spend the winter in Cleveland. Father John J. Doherty never returned. Francis has read of the consecration of Bishop Rappe. Father Joseph McNamee will not return before the spring and then only to settle some business. They have begun to form a Catholic library. They have subscribed $75 with $39 paid in. They sent in $50 to Dunigans and he asks Francis to suggest methods of raising money. He thinks the library will do much good. The weather is delightful, Indian summer. He speaks of helping amputate a leg. A Mr. Hitchock was murdered in Philadelphia. The railroad will be complete to Urbana month after next and next summer to Springfield from where it is now finished to Cincinnati. He speaks of the books he is reading and suggests that Francis write a review of them for their papers. :: I-1-a A.L.S. 3pp. 4to.