McCloskey's letter of March 25 has just reached Kindekens. They have hopes that the promise of Count Felix de Merode to donate 60,000 francs to the contemplated American College at Louvain will not be repudiated by his children. As to what Bishop O'Connor writes from Europe to the Archbishop of Baltimore, Kindekens can only say that if such sentiments are held at Rome they are most probably imported from the United States. Last year when in Rome Kindekens conversed with the Holy Father and Cardinal Barnabo and they approved highly of the project. Kindekens is sorry that he is unable forthwith to send McCloskey some young priests. He has as yet only three at his disposal but as their bishop is determined not to allow any to come to America unless they join a religious community or through the American College Kindekens must be guided by the rules in the prospectus of the college. Some days ago L'Emancipation Belge published an abstract from the Univers of Paris which was evidently suggested by a gentleman from the States and intended to put a damper on their undertaking. Kindekens had written an answer but the Belgian bishops advised him not to notice it at that time but to rent at once a house in Louvain and make a commencement not on October 1 but immediately. They have not yet opened the subscription lists because that committee wants first a final decision on the Merode affair. Kindekens has written to Bishop Peter Paul Lefevere to send the $1,000 he agreed to contribute and to request McCloskey and Bishop Martin John Spalding to do the same. He asks McCloskey to send this letter on to Lefevere. Lefevere will ere now have communicated to McCloskey Kindekens' letter of the 16th from which McCloskey will learn the exact position of affairs. P.S. Probably towards September or October Kindekens will be able to send some young priests to America - the first fruits of their enterprise. In the Detroit papers. :: III-2-i A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.