Wood acknowledges McFarland's letter of May 4. The original arrangement of the plenary council set up a committee of seven archbishops and five bishops, Newark, Charleston, Columbus, Hartford, and Philadelphia, as the acting committee on the American College, Rome . No meeting of these committees was ever held and in Rome the prelates present quashed the old committee and set one in their place consisting of the prelates of Baltimore, New York, Boston, Newark and Philadelphia. Remembering that McFarland was on the old committee he erroneously invited him to the meeting. The work has been done principally by Father George H. Doane and by Wood and Wood hopes to be relieved at the meeting in Baltimore. He hopes that McFarland's health is improving. :: I-1-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.