McCaffrey is looking everywhere for help. After appealing to Archbishop Kenrick, Hughes, and Purcell he now turns to McCloskey, Loughlin, etc. His problem is that Maurice C. Byrne, a boy of fifteen, was dragged from the college by soldiers because of a letter he wrote to his Father, Judge Daniel Byrne of Milliken's Bend, Louisiana. McFarland knows Judge Byrne, one of their graduates who was a prefect and is one of their most respectable and estimable men, lawyer, judge, and planter. Maurice, with two other sons and two daughters have been cut off for two years from their surviving parent. Maurice had tried to correspond with his Father and boasted that he was a good Confederate in some childish language. Judge Byrne had been relieved of all his property by General Grant's soldiers and his home used as headquarters. General Blair gave him a pass and he had been visiting at Mt. St. Mary's a few days when the little boy was arrested. He was taken to Baltimore and despite the legal assistance of respectable Union men, he was required to take a long oath of loyalty to the Union and hostility to the Confederate cause. The boy was too conscientious to do that, and was ordered to prison through Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick. McCaffrey is appealing for help and hopes that McFarland can do something for him. Some think that he and Judge Byrne are exposing themselves to arrest because of their interference and may cause damage to the college. He hopes that McFarland can bring some influence to bear. He asks him to stir up Archbishop John Hughes to whom he has appealed not, he trusts, in vain. McCaffrey asks McFarland to come to their commencement on the 24th. :: I-1-b A.L.S. 3pp. 4to.