Spalding is very anxious about the American college at Louvain in Belgium and is ready to pay the $1000 whenever he has sufficient assurance that the college will go on. Father Peter Kindekens Kindekins has not written to him and in the letters to Lefevere and Bishop John McCloskey, he says not one word of the Cardinal Engelbert Sterckx of Mechlin under whose superintendence the college was to be placed. If Kindekens will write him that the college will go on and send one line of approval from the Archbishop of Mechlin the next steamer will carry a draft for half the amount to be followed soon by the balance. Spalding is doubly anxious for the success of the college on account of some of "our Rt. Rev. Brethern throwing cold water on it." He has no doubt that McCloskey and probably other bishops would contribute. P.S. Spalding examined the students at St. Thomas and was much pleased with their proficiency but was disappointed that Lefevere did not come. :: III-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.