On January 11 Kluck asked for his dimissorial papers. These are the reasons: 1. The climate is too cold., 2. In the summer he has sore eyes., 3. The most important, he is so poor he cannot buy winter clothes. ~ Document ~ He has had no servant for six years and five months; such service has to be paid for. The bishop bade him come back in the afternoon which he did and gave an account of the household. Whereupon the bishop again dismissed him without wishing to hear him further and without further instructions. He thought it proper to find a place for himself and went to Mexico, from where he asked the bishop to send his dismissal. The German, Polish, and Irish Catholics live so strewn out from Vera Cruz to Mexico City that no priest without support or private means could maintain himself there, as he knows from the German and Polish settlement in Huron county, Michigan. He traveled by steamship by way of Havana to New York and from there by railroad to Alton, Illinois. Here he asked the bishop to take him into his diocese when he got his dimissorial. The third time the Bishop of Alton Henry D. Juncker ordered him to go to Detroit to the bishop; he went. These trips from Alton to Detroit, from Detroit to Alton, and now again to Detroit have cost him $60.75. He asks again for his dimissorial papers and also a statement of his conduct. He gives a quotation in Latin from Gregory XIII on a good name and reputation. :: III-2-k A.L.S. German 4pp. 8vo.