O'Cavanagh asks Bishop Lefevere for his dimissory papers. He has complied with all that had been required of him and Pope Gregory XVI has reinstated him on February 3, a month before the time marked in Lefevere's paper of 1842. Authorities in Rome regard him as a subject of the Diocese of Detroit. For verification Lefevere may write to Father John Grassi, S.J., Assistant General of the Jesuits, to Cardinal Charles Acton and to Father Paul Cullen, Rector of the Irish College, Rome. All will testify that his affairs are arranged. He encloses a testimonial not in the letter from Father Grassi, well known in America as he spent 7 years at Georgetown Washington, D.C.. O'Cavanagh received the Catholic Almanac from America and had noted the increase of bishops and the changes of priests. All but two of the new bishops are fellow students and one from the same part of Ireland. Father Cullen had a petition drawn up and presented by the Secretary of the Propaganda to His Holiness, who, after a few days' consideration "assented" to the prayer of this petition. O'Cavanagh would be glad if Lefevere would say what he could "approbatory for" him as the paper will go through many hands. P.S. He asks the bishop to write as conveniently as possible to him, in care of Cullen, or to Grassi. :: III-2-h A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.