McCloskey has been desirous for some time of writing to McFarland about the Provincial Seminary of Troy. It is desirable that the Bishops concerned meet until he is installed in the Archiepiscopal See. He has fixed the Sunday within the octave of Assumption as the day of his inauguration. As all the Bishops of the Province will be invited to meet for the purpose of selecting names for the see of Albany, he will suggest that at the meeting the following Monday or Tuesday there will be a meeting for the nominating and for the proper organization of the Seminary. The work of preparation has gone on briskly and the building will be ready for occupancy by September. The priests from Belgium will embark the first or second week of August, the President and three professors. There will be three lay brothers with them. The Bishops will have to supply the professor of moral theology and the temporal administrator. Father Zephrinus Druon of Vermont was offered this job but declined. McCloskey asks if McFarland can suggest anyone for this important office. He asks how many students McFarland would propose for the seminary. Not more than sixty in all can be accommodated the first year. The preferences should be given to those just entering theology or philosophy. McCloskey will leave Albany August 4 and make a retreat before assuming his task. He hopes that McFarland will attend the installation. If all the suffragan attend, their meeting could be held without delay. If not, it will have to be postponed until Monday morning or evening. :: I-1-b A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.