McCloskey had hopes to return east before the beginning of November but finds he must remain a while in the west. At. St. Louis he met most of the suffragan and Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick. The Archbishop enters warmly into the matter that brings him there. He will send students and will have a collection taken up one Sunday, and they agreed on the first Sunday of Advent. He thinks Kenrick one of the ablest prelates of the American Church. He is now trying to see Archbishop John Baptist Purcell who is visiting his diocese. Four of Purcell's students leave for Rome in a few days and one or two more will follow sent by congregations. Father Daniel O'Regan of Lancaster told him that his parish would send one. Tomorrow McCloskey moves to Fort Wayne, then Detroit, and home by Cleveland, Erie, and New York. He hopes to visit McFarland. He asks McFarland to set the day for the general collection in the diocese as he cannot fix these things himself. He does not expect to get away until spring, because having come so far he will do all he can. He will go South. Bishop John Quinlan asks him to come. Quinlan will send students and thinks that McCloskey should go to New Orleans. Bishop William Henry Elder he knows will do all he can. He wishes McFarland could send one to take Mr. Hart's place. He would not lose time by sailing now. A letter to him addressed to Bishop Josue M. Young at Erie would reach him. :: I-1-b A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.