Merle, who met Lefevere only once, and that in Bishop Maurice de St. Palais' room, then stopping with the Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick, on the occasion of the Provincial Council, requests permission to join the Detroit Diocese. He was several places in the Vincennes Diocese, substituting for Father Joseph Kundeck of Jasper, Indiana, and at Richmond, Indiana where, due to clerical interference, he left. Taking his exeat he was received by Bishop James Duggan Coadjutor to St. Louis and Administrator of Chicago Diocese and sent to Peoria, Kickapoo, and Black Partridge, Illinois . He received an unfortunate priest who later turned against him to the extent that Merle took his exeat and got out. The Irish and German racial antagonisms are quite evident. :: III-2-i A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo. 10