In answer to McFarland's letter he says he cannot recommend Father M. Carraher to any Bishop to be employed in the ministry. During the two years in Bacon's diocese he showed a tendency to melancholy bordering on insanity, suspicious and unwilling to attend to duty; generally temperate but on occasions he drank to excess. He believes the Bishop of Boston deprived him of his mission for the same reason and sent him to his uncle, Father Henry Lennon of Newburyport. But he was dissatisfied and the uncle persuaded Bacon to adopt him. His plea of waiting for a letter from the provincial of the Jesuits is but a feint, used when everything else failed to get an exeat. :: I-1-b A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.