A few weeks ago O'Connor visited a convent of Sisters of Mercy in Ennis, County Clare, which seemed in excellent condition and full of nuns. He was told that Dean Kenny who founded it was so attached that he would not allow any foundations from it. The nuns are under the same impression about the Dean's unwillingness to part with any of the inmates. O'Connor joked with the dean about it and he denied it and said he was willing if there were proper applications. After some conversation with the dean, O'Connor thought of McFarland and thought he might find the sisters a good accession to his forces. The Dean received the proposal and the Sisters were willing. But they would not become incorporated in another community. It was for this reason that they refused Dr. Carmody. O'Connor thinks it better to allow them to form an independent community of their own until they agree to unite. He told the dean and the sisters that he had no authority but that he would tell McFarland. O'Connor will stay in Ireland until next spring and would be glad to handle the negotiations. He would transmit letters with explanations but would not have any responsibility. The Sisters said they would merely give the sisters the means of traveling and to outfit in America would not be at their charge. The present Sisters of Mercy would not be unwilling to resign in their favor any existing establishment and let these sisters paddle their own canoe. This would be better than to have another community near them. He has written to Father Thomas J. Sinnott of Bridgeport refering to him a subject on which a Sister of Charity in Scotland wrote him thinking he was the Bishop of Hartford. She is a niece of Cardinal Cullen. She wanted Sinnott to authorize Francis Graham, in his parish, to collect for a hospital they are building in Lanark. He knew the sister in her father's house in Liverpool. He wrote to Father Sinnott that he did not think any collection would interfere with the parish. He sees by the papers that a consistory will be held in Rome in November and the affairs of McFarland's new diocese will be deferred until then. Then Council has not changed things. He hopes for better health but he has not found it yet. :: I-1-c A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo.