Carrell regrets that he is obliged to return the draft for 3000 francs which Archbishop John Baptist Purcell of Cincinnati refuses to liquidate, saying that Carrell owes him a like sum. Covington and NewportKentucky were under Cincinnati before the new diocese was erected. There is only a poor chapel there. Bishop Lami was at that time pastor at Covington and it was to him that Purcell gave 600 piastres to buy land. It was probably money which the Association for the Propagation of the Faith had contributed. Carrell can find no record of this sum in the books of the church. But if it was used to buy the land, why should expenditures for the churches in the new diocese have to be paid back to the prelate from whose diocese the division was made. If it was simply a loan from Purcell to the pastor of Covington, Purcell had promised, as a gift, the sum of $500. This is attested by the registrar and by the word of Father Butler then pastor at Covington. The $600 was advanced seven years ago. Carrell would not have written except that he had been informed that Purcell was going to write on this subject to the directors of the association. The diocese of Cincinnati is rich in churches, schools and priests while Carrell, just beginning, is without resources, priests, seminary and schools. He has built a cathedral, probably the most unpretentious in the United States. :: III-2-i A.L. French Copy 3pp. 12mo. 11