Carrell calls attention to a subject of difference between Archbishop John Baptist Purcell of Cincinnati and himself: the $600 Purcell claims he loaned to Bishop John Baptist Lamy when pastor at Covington. It strikes Carrell that he heard Purcell say that he had stated the case to Lefevere and Bishop Martin John Spalding and that Lefevere considered the claim Just. Carrell lately received an order from Mr. Charles Choiselat for 3000 francs which Purcell refused to pay. Carrell sends a copy of the letter he wrote Choiselat. He also gives items of information to enable Lefevere to form a just judgement in this matter, which, no doubt, will be brought before the Provincial Council to be opened in May. 1. Persons at Covington say that Bishop Lamy told them that Purcell gave this money. 2. Several collections have been made at Covington for the seminary, the orphan asylum, and churches of Cincinnati. Father Ferdinand Kuhr tells him that Purcell ordained a former German teacher of Covington whose ecclesiastical education was paid for by collections in Covington. 3. Father Robert J. Lawrence was permitted by Purcell to collect on the Covington side. Father Thomas R. Butler testifies that he remonstrated but Lawrence continued. Two contractors, McCormick and Henry? Meyers paid him $1100 on their contracts. If Lawrence paid the amount collected on this side to the debt of St. Patrick's church something would be coming to Covington in the settlement. 4. Purcell, by refusing to permit the cornerstone to be laid or to allow Father Butler to go on with the building caused a loss of at least $200. They have on their books, Purcell's signature subscribing $500 toward the new church. A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo. Enclosure: