The accompanying document no enclosure came without the promised Syllabus. Cardinal Alexander Barnabo says permission to eat meat runs to 1868. Purcell notes such a furor among his Germans for marrying in the first degree of affinity in collateral line. He has exhausted 7 of the 10 faculties allowed him. These Germans come out of their hiding places in time of missions. Barnabo sends him a copy of an old list of questions, substantially answered before now about candidates proposed for episcopal sees. The Archbishop of Baltimore, Martin John Spalding has sent to the Cardinal the names presented for Albany. Purcell is at a loss to know what to say about the names offered at Detroit. Several bishops would prefer Father William McCloskey Rector of the American College in Rome. If they could get the Provincial of the Jesuits Ferdinand Cossemans, S.J. in St. Louis, Purcell would prefer him. Purcell asks Lefevere to advise him what to write to the Cardinal about Father Benjamin Spalding, Peter J. Lavialle, Coosemans, and McCloskey. :: III-2-k A.L.S. 3pp. 16mo.