Hennessy learned long since that Father Edward Dillon wished if possible to hurt him. When Hennessy left Halifax Nova Scotia and decided, in Boston, to stay in this country he saw by the Laity's Directory that Lefevere wanted priests. If Dillon's slander had had any effect on Lefevere, Hennessy was satisfied. Dillon accused Hennessy of saying that Bishop William Walsh of Halifax had been involved in a scandal with a woman and her two nieces who came to Halifax with him. Bishop Walsh had been her director and friend and had converted her two nieces. Hennessy had never seen a more pious lady and has never had a better friend than Bishop Walsh. Dillon also said that Hennessy had made similar slanderous statements about all the priests of Boston . On the contrary Hennessy has never met a nobler prieshood. He had told Dillon of a single case happening in Bishop Benedict Joseph Fenwick's time. If Dillon will not confine himself to ruining the peace of his own congregation and stop interfering with him, Hennessy will really give him something that will occupy his mind. P.S. He will be in town for confession next Monday. :: III-2-h A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.